How d'you like your apps in the mornin'?

[crocodilewings]

Some questions about apps, and what you like about them, and what you don't. I know the first few questions are a bit dichotomous, but I want to know which side it's best to err on. Please feel free to expand, expound and opine in comments.

Poll Some questions for smartphone app users

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[crocodilewings]

Oh, by the by, raggedhalo, the reason some apps don't let you place them on external storage is because they can't live on a storage device that can be unmounted. Anything that runs a persistent background process, schedules tasks to be carried out at a later point in time, or has components that sit on your home screen, runs the risk of failing without recovery if the system needs to remount the SD card for any reason.

My app will do at least two, if not all three of those things, and there's not a lot I can do about it.

[crocodilewings]

Oh, they're just lazy. By default apps will prefer to only sit on internal storage, and you have to specifically enable it.

If you're dead set on moving stuff onto external storage, and you have the apk file for the app, you can hack the app's manifest file pretty easily to enable it. It'll either reset or crash horribly every time you update the app, but it's possible.

ETA: In fairness, I suppose you could say they're either lazy or backwards-compatible, since earlier versions of the API didn't let you put apps on external storage. Probably just lazy, though.