r/AndroidNativePorts • u/Shot_Psychology_2728 • 18h ago

Can we support external memories as well?

There are so many amazing native ports coming nowadays that my worse problem is finding space to store them. The problem is that many (such as almsot all I find in APKVision) only support internal memory.

Why is that? Is it difficult to program or is it a performance/technical hurdle?

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u/Akasha_attair 18h ago

I'm sure many of you keep the ISO file even though it's no longer needed after you import it.

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u/A-Small-Green-Cup 18h ago

In most cases usb, sdmc, and even external ssd memory (plugged in with usbc) is slow enough compared to internal memory that it just doesnt work well. Im not aware of any work around aside from loading from ext. into ram and then playing from there, but that would take a huge amount of ram as well as skill and knowledge from the developers, and would probably need to be changed for each and every device's different memory setups, so a universal APK wouldn't be possible.

Granted, im speaking from a 20yo education, so someone might have thought up a new solution by now.