[sword-devel] New shared common SWORD path on Android

[Michael Johnson]

My main thoughts on this are:
1. The less we fight the way Google wants Android to work, the better.
2. Within the constraints of the above, backward compatibility is good.

On 9/12/21 3:51 AM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I've been updating Bishop to work on newer versions of Android and have
> found that we are running into problems trying to create the
> "Nonstandard top-level folder" 'sword' at the root of the common storage
> folder.
>
> Tobias, I know a while back you mentioned that you had to update Ezra
> for Android recently, but it has been a long while since we talked about
> it and I'd like to know if you've had any updated thoughts on what
> you're doing there.
>
> Any other mobile Android devs have any thoughts.
>
> For now, I have updated our cordova plugin (and thus Bishop) to check
> and if possible use paths in this preferred order:
>
> "/sdcard/Documents/sword"
>
> "/sdcard/sword"
>
> ((android.app.Application)
> app).getApplicationContext().getFilesDir().getAbsolutePath();
>
> And we are augmenting modules from AndBible:
>
> "/sdcard/Android/data/net.bible.android.activity/files"
>
> ... but I'd prefer not to do this any longer, once we all agree and
> implement storing files in a common location.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Troy
>
>
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