• astral_avocado@programming.dev
    19·
    1 year ago

    Please someone tell me why androids filesystem structure is so damn confusing, I’ve wondered this forever but have never looked it up

    • heimchen
      14·
      1 year ago

      I have spent weeks setting up LineageOs for my unsupported phone and I think I understood it.

      • So /storage/emulated/0 is practically your home directory, all folders you can easily change are there.
      • I don’t understand these memes, everything gets saved to /Downloads. The default file explorer is just crap. I use amaze
      • the only really weird directory is the camera, it is saved in DCIM
      • If you care about app specific app data go to /Android/data (for me its like the .config directory)
      • karstin@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 year ago

        I’m just guessing here, but if I recall correctly, android was started as an OS for digital cameras. So saving camera files to DCIM (Digital Camera Images) makes sense as that is standard to most other cameras

    • Johanno@lemmynsfw.com
      3·
      1 year ago

      Well usually you had your Download folder like in pc. Now every app has its own secured workspace where only it can access it’s files. If you want to download to the original download folder your app needs full storage access. And since people don’t know how to code they download into the secure app storage often.

      So now your download is in Android/media/domain.app.name/Download

      Great, isn’t it.