Do ALL android devices have an internal SD card?

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Sébastien picture Sébastien · Nov 7, 2010 · Viewed 9.8k times · Source

On the first run of my app, I am downloading a pretty big file to /sdcard/

I already know this can fail if the internal SD card of the user's phone is full or not mounted (e.g. if the phone is connected to a PC as a mass storage device, or has not been properly disconnected from a PC).

But are there any android devices with NO INTERNAL SD CARD ? (on which my app would definitely be unusable)

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CommonsWare picture CommonsWare · Nov 7, 2010

But are there any android devices with NO INTERNAL SD CARD ? (on which my app would definitely be unusable)

Any device that has the Android Market will have at least 2GB of storage at Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(). Whether that is an SD card or something else will vary by device.

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