Newpipe: Allow install on external memory card

Created on 26 Mar 2016 · 7Comments · Source: TeamNewPipe/NewPipe

Can you set the flag to allow it to be installed on an external memory card?

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Gitoffthelawn

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@theScrabi he's talking about this flag android:installLocation, to move the app itself to the sdcard.

And we should allow the users to do that.

mauriciocolli on 14 May 2017

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Nop, we had that problem before. Until we re write the whole downloading thing, it will not be possible to use external storage. The build in download manager of android prevents that.

theScrabi on 27 Mar 2016

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Interesting. So NewPipe is currently using the built-in Android download manager, and anything that uses it cannot be stored on external storage?

Gitoffthelawn on 27 Mar 2016

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As far as I know yes. It depends on the android version. Newer one locked down the external memory. We already have our own build in download manager, but I deactivated it because its garbage right now.

theScrabi on 28 Mar 2016

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Thanks for the details. Perhaps you will be able to allow it to be moved to external storage in the future. Fortunately, it's still a relatively small app at ~8MB.

Gitoffthelawn on 28 Mar 2016

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@theScrabi he's talking about this flag android:installLocation, to move the app itself to the sdcard.

And we should allow the users to do that.

mauriciocolli on 14 May 2017

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