App Install Location

App Install Location

If you do not declare this attribute, your application will be installed on the internal storage only and it cannot be moved to the external storage.

When your application is installed on the external storage:

a>There is no effect on the application performance so long as the external storage is mounted on the device.

b> The .apk file is saved on the external storage, but all private user data, database, optimized .dex files, and extracted native code are saved on the internal device memory.

c> The unique container in which your application is stored is encrypted with a randomly generated key that can be decrypted only by the device that originally installed it. Thus, an application installed on an SD card
works for only one device.

d>The user can move your application to the internal storage through the system settings.

When the user enables USB mass storage to share files with a computer or unmounts the SD card via the system setting, the external storage is unmounted from the device and all application running on the external storage
are immediately killed.

Backward Compatibility

Applications That Should NOT Install on External Storage

Applications That Should Install on External Storage