# Making apps movable to SD card on Android

**URL:** <https://forums.fusetools.com/t/making-apps-movable-to-sd-card-on-android/4473>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Created:** [October 16, 2016, 9:18pm UTC](https://forums.fusetools.com/t/making-apps-movable-to-sd-card-on-android/4473 "2016-10-16T21:18:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Edwin\_Reynoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e99b99/32.png) [@Edwin\_Reynoso](https://forums.fusetools.com/u/Edwin_Reynoso)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2016, 9:18pm UTC](https://forums.fusetools.com/t/making-apps-movable-to-sd-card-on-android/4473/1 "2016-10-16T21:18:07Z")

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I know that apps can be moved to SD card to make space on the internal storage. I’ve read that this is a setting that is done on Android I have no idea how however, could Fuse make this possible for all apps it builds on Android. I’d really love if my app could easily be moved to SD card for users who barely have internal storage space.

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**Author:** ![MTracey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@MTracey](https://forums.fusetools.com/u/MTracey)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 5:10pm UTC](https://forums.fusetools.com/t/making-apps-movable-to-sd-card-on-android/4473/2 "2016-10-17T17:10:51Z")

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I think you can use a uxl file to copy an AndroidMaifest.xml file into the Android build.  
If you look at:

> **[bolav/fuse-dropbox](https://github.com/bolav/fuse-dropbox)**
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> fuse-dropbox - Use the Dropbox SDK from Fuse.

you’ll see that in the Dropbox-Android.uxl file there’s a line that allows the AndroidManifest.xml file  
in the directory to be processed into the build.

In this manfiest you would then put:

```
android:installLocation="preferExternal"

```

in the manifest tag.

If there is an easier way I’d also like to know.

Regards,  
Matt