[jira] [Created] (CB-5916) Change Android filesystem root location

["Ian Clelland (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Ian Clelland created CB-5916:
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             Summary: Change Android filesystem root location
                 Key: CB-5916
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-5916
             Project: Apache Cordova
          Issue Type: Sub-task
          Components: Android, Plugin File
            Reporter: Ian Clelland
            Assignee: Ian Clelland


Android Persistent files are (also) stored in an inconvenient place by default: Either the application data directory (not accounting for a possible multi-user environment), or the root of the SD Card, if it is mounted (And on Nexus devices, the emulated SD Card is *always* mounted)

See CB-285 for much more discussion, and http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/data-storage.html for a good explanation of the properties of various storage locations.

There should be a single preference in config.xml for Android persistent files. It can take one of two values (currently; additional values may be added later if we have better ideas)

{code}
<preference name="AndroidPersistentFileLocation" value="Compatibility" /> (Old location logic)

<preference name="AndroidPersistentFileLocation" value="Internal" /> (New location)
{code}

"{{Internal}}" will put persistent files under the user's application internal storage directory {{Activity.getFilesDir() + "/files"}} -- the extra {{/files}} means that other filesystem plugins can register roots at different places under {{getFilesDir()}} which will not be visible to one another.



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