Home/ Questions/Q 9271779
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-18T15:42:29+00:00

4.2 Jellybean now supports multiple users. However as per the docs , all calls

  • 0

4.2 Jellybean now supports multiple users. However as per the docs, all calls to all the APIs to get storage location return locations private to the current user (eg: getExternalStorageDirectory()).

I cache plenty of content from servers and store this to external storage, but with a multi user enviornment, this data will need to be duplicated for all users. This is wasting a lot of space.

Is there any way to store files to a common area for all users to make use of?

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    Apparently not, according to the release notes:

    No matter which of these APIs you use to save data for a given user,
    the data will not be accessible while running as a different user.
    From your app’s point of view, each user is running on a completely
    separate device.

    I hope I’m wrong because I have the same problem as you.

    I appreciate that it would have been a potential security hole, but if I saved files in the folder returned by getExternalStoragePublicDirectory, I would have only myself to blame.

    • 0