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[Lubomir I. Ivanov]

On 28 February 2018 at 13:35, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28 February 2018 at 13:23, Long, Martin <martin at longhome.co.uk> wrote:
>> I believe it is a simple setting in the manifest.  android:installLocation
>> which can be either "preferExternal" or "auto" (or not present, to disallow
>> moving to SD). I suspect this may have changed.
>>
>> However, there are certain types of app which can not/should not be moved to
>> SD. It may be that subsurface has started to fall into one of these
>> categories.
>
> i've checked the value in our manifest and it's android:installLocation="auto".
>
> maybe our underlying framework is the cause - Qt.
> yet quickly googling about Qt apps that don't work from a SD card i
> can't find any results.
>
>>  The various reasons can be found here:
>> https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/install-location.html
>>
>
> "Applications That Should NOT Install on External Storage"
>
> i don't think we fall under that category in terms of our code base.
> again, it could be a generic Qt issue.
>
> it's best if you can log an issue in our github if you have an account:
> https://github.com/Subsurface-divelog/subsurface/issues
>

could be an issue with that particular device and we don't have
control over that - e.g. a Samsung specific sandobox.
can you try on another Android device?

lubomir
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