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		bdonlan on Feb 18, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: KitKat will make your SD Card useless Hm, is there no system-level app installed by default that provides an implementation of DocumentsProvider that provides read/write access to the external SD card?

tadfisher on Feb 18, 2014 [–]

The entire card? No. The MediaStore provider provides access to the standard media storage directories (DCIM/, Music/, etc) and each individual app may provide a DocumentsProvider for their private storage (/data/<your.app>/ or whatever they've moved it to).

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