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JonasCz / save-for-offline

Android app for saving webpages for offline reading.
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Permit installing on external memory card. #27

Closed Gitoffthelawn closed 8 years ago

Gitoffthelawn commented 8 years ago

This excellent app is still small (yea!), but can you set the flag to allow it to be installed on an external memory card?

JonasCz commented 8 years ago

I'll take a look, this is easily doable.

I'm curious though why you'd want to install a 500kb app (and I don't think it's going to become any bigger) on external memory ? (FYI, it already stores the bulk of its data on external memory).

Gitoffthelawn commented 8 years ago

Thanks.

Good question too. Three reasons:

  1. When internal memory is tight, every KB counts!
  2. When searching through apps that are forced to be installed on internal memory, it makes that list longer (not a big deal, but the shorter the list, the better)
  3. Open source projects can set good examples for closed source projects. So many large apps force themselves to be installed on internal memory. Many of them do not have a reason for this limitation (no widgets, etc.). As it becomes more commonplace to remove this restriction, hopefully all developers will become aware of the flexibility they can offer their users.
JonasCz commented 8 years ago

Done (in the latest source).

Gitoffthelawn commented 8 years ago

Thanks!