App's Files folder accessible to another application

Asked May 30 '14 at 14:54

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I have two apps that generate some files, I would like these files to be synchronized on a server. To avoid code duplication I'm creating only one background worker thread to synchronize these files. At this point I have two independent question:

Is it a good practice to have one worker thread synchronizing two applications's files on the server ?
Let's say the worker thread is in app1 how can app1 access app2's files ?

I made some research I've found that ContentProvider would be a good way to do it if I was using a Database.

asked May 30 '14 at 14:54

M'hamed

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2.If the files are stored in external files dir or on sdcard they are readableby by all other apps. – greenapps May 30 '14 at 20:45
No, the files are private, its stored in the app folder – M'hamed May 30 '14 at 20:52
What do you consider to be the app folder? You know there are several app folders? – greenapps May 30 '14 at 21:00
data/package/files I retrieve the path via getFilesDir() – M'hamed May 30 '14 at 21:03
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That is mostly /data/data/package/files. Other packages have no acces to FilesDir. So I would let handle the synchonization by the app itself. – greenapps May 30 '14 at 21:06

App's Files folder accessible to another application

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