"transfer data to sd card" - how to check which apps are moved?

[icstm]

Hi,

In Sony speak normally the "SD card" is infact just emulated space on the internal storage.

So 2 questions:

1 - Does this android option move apps to the actual SD card

2 - and if so, how can you check which apps this applies to?

OPTION IN QUESTION

Find and tap Settings > Storage > Transfer data to SD card.> Apps

[Uliwooly]

@icstm

It doesn't 

[icstm]

uliwooly - thanks.

Still cannot work out how to "@" mention you. At least in my firefox browser on the Sony forum "@" does work at the start of a word.

[Uliwooly]

@icstm

check this out

http://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Software-Updates/Apps-moved-to-SD-card-still-reserve-space-in-internal...

[icstm]

BTW, can we select FAT32 or exFAT?
If I use the standard "erase SD card" there is no option.

[icstm]

Yes, I know that if I use the app management tool within Apps in settings then that does not result in files moving to the real SD card.

Some apps like Co-pilot, Podcasts and others do use the real SD themselves, the same folder structure. Andriod/apps/...

[Uliwooly]

@icstm

only if you use a computer.

[Uliwooly]

@icstm

They seem to use the SD card but not entirely.

[YoGem]

You cannot really move 100% of an app to the SD card: App is nothing else that a zipped archive renamed to .apk - The main java app has to stay in the internal storage, if the app has widgets they will remain in the internal storage. Reason is the Android OS. It's not designed to run apps from SD cards. So if the app can be moved, all the binaries and Java files will remain "internal", only allowed assets will be moved to SD card. Like images, sounds, maps, music and so on. You may discover that some apps, once moved, will occupy more or less the same internal disk space and few more megabytes in the SD card. Yep, not optimal at all. Not Sony's fault tho, it's bad design from Google.

[icstm]

I was not after moving a whole app.
I am talking about the large data files that many apps require.

For example Copilot can store is maps on the SD card.
Podcasts can stores its, err, podcasts...

So I was wondering if there was a way to manually move large data files of games to the SD card, whilst leaving the program on the phone.