Android documentation discourages apps with certain functionality (accounts, sync adapter, widgets, services, for instance) from allowing installation to external media:
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/install-location.html#ShouldNot
We currently allow it. Should we stop? Or is this an important enough use case for people to outweigh the technical arguments against it?
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | Dbrant | T141000 Consider disabling installation to external media | |||
| Open | None | T130622 Allow saving pages to external storage |
My personal view is that we shouldn't disable this but we should put a note in our FAQ about it, noting that it could introduce bugs and instability and directing users to indicate if they've installed externally when filing a bug. Then we could close this ticket.
@Dbrant Does that seem like a reasonable resolution?
@Dbrant Pinging you on this - see @Mholloway's pervious comment. Seems like something we could take care of while updating documentation.