[ale] android test editor/reader

[JD]

Google updated Android recently to remove the ability for general-purpose file
management. They intend for applications AND data to be tightly connected - to
the point that when an app is un-installed, the data goes too. Perhaps not what
we really want?

Of course, there are APIs where apps can ask the OS to allow access to files,
but it seems that most apps trying to go outside their own data don't do this.
I think there was an article about this last week at
AndroidPolice/Central/something.... it was all to improved Android security.

I'm sure something I've written is wrong above ... my memory sucks.
http://www.androidcentral.com/kitkat-sdcard-changes
Enjoy.


On 04/29/2014 01:54 PM, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> You'd think this would be easy.
> 
> Have an Android tablet. With Micro SD card (which is smaller than my fat fingers
> can handle!)
> 
> I have installed on SD card an unencrypted text file.
> 
> But I can not find any way to access the file! I have tried several "text
> editors" and none has a way to look for text files it has not created. In fact
> none seems to work like a text editor at all.
> 
> Does anyone know of a text editor/reader that will do the simple things:
> 
> scan storage media for text files;
> 
> open/save/close a file;
> 
> do simple edits to file?
>