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Jellybean (4.2)

Jellybean (4.1)

22%

Ice-cream Sandwich (4.0)

12%

Honeycomb (3.x)

Gingerbread (2.3.3+)

10%

Gingerbread (2.3.0 - 2.3.2)

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I have an iPhone/Nokia/Blackberry/etc

45%

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Android devices and climbers 5-Apr-2013 At 3:39:29 PM Cam McKenzie

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On 5/04/2013 ajfclark wrote:
>On 5/04/2013 Cam McKenzie wrote:
>>Doesn't the app have to run on internal storage (or on the non removal
>USB storage)? I thought that you couldn't transfer apps to run off an external
>SD.
>
>Not quite sure what you're asking. The Froyo phone I have (HTC Wildfire)
>allows you to transfer apps onto the SD card and they still run fine (until
>you unmount the SD card). Apps that use widgets cannot be transferred
>to the SD card. It seems those that use a database can't be transferred
>either. There might be other conditions (or the ones I've listed might
>not be correct), I'm not 100% sure.
>
>Regardless of where the app is stored though, its possible to read from
>and write to the SD card as long as it has the appropriate permissions.
> So in theory, I could make the app (which is small, about 5mb) download
>the images and store them on the SD card. There's no permissions or protections
>though so anyone can access the data there and fiddle with it and it might
>suddenly disappear while your application is running (if the user plugs
>the phone in to a PC for instance).

On my S2, it has internal phone memory, an internal SD card (which can't be removed, but can be mounted as a USB drive if you hook it up to a PC), and an external SD card (which can be removed and mounted etc.). You can't move an app to the external SD, but you can have it on the other two.

I don't think that it's a big deal not being able to access the app while the phone is hooked up to a PC. That's certainly the approach I've taken for the android port of iCrag anyway. In fact, given the size of the app, that's the only real option.