Thankfully, apps often contain their own download options internally, letting you save tons of space by moving big audio, video and picture files over to your SD card. But if you want to dig deeper than that, then it makes a strong case for rooting your device taking into consideration all the risks that entails, of course.
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Brainwashing would not be an exageration in my opinion. Instead of an external card, you can also transfer these files to a cloud service. However, you free up a lot of space on your phone and your external card. You can simply uninstall them and save space. Some apps have a lot of cached data which you can delete. While some apps will open slower the next time you use them, you free up a lot of space. Your phone also becomes slightly faster overall.
Some phone brands such as Samsung have optimizer apps on their devices. You can use these to find anything hogging up memory. From duplicates to cache data, these optimizer apps are handy to help maintain a healthy and speedy device. The former is how you download apps to use on your phone. After the relaunch, the Download option from the browser will be gone. Find my blog post on how to change download location in Chrome for Android? I would like to know your thoughts in the comments.
Here is actually everything about data storing. You should then write your data in the following directory:. It's probably easiest and expected to save this out to the dedicated area on the external SD card. If it's user created I'd probably stick to pictures. To be helpful you can also call the media scanner to add it to the appropriate content provider system wide. If you MUST get a file chooser going, which isn't the recomened approach to expose the user to the file system.
However, the exact process differs from manufacturer to manufacturer. Not all phones can do this either. The same method above can be used to switch the default download location to an SD card. This method works with Android 6.
You should also not remove the card from the phone unless absolutely necessary. This works to prevent security breaches and adapt the card to its new function. You should back up your data before attempting this, just in case something goes wrong. Your phone will analyze the card before you can format it. This can be done only on some phones. The exact steps may differ according to your phone model and manufacturer.
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