[skeletonjelly]

If not dot files lazy programmers would have just found another way. Just look at the results of lazy programmers on any Android SD card.

[voltagex_]

Is there a preferred standard for using the SD/external storage on Android?

[skeletonjelly]

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/t3x0p/randroid_lets...

> I do find it odd that so many apps have this problem. It's trivially easy to get the proper location. Just call getExternalFilesDir() . Deletion at uninstall happens automatically. In fact, it's the ONLY way to make sure those files are deleted when you uninstall, because you can't run code at uninstallation.

[barrkel]

Probably because it came in fairly late (Froyo, I think).

[chj]

Yay, I am one of them.