[android-developers] Approved/recommended/best way to write to GENUINE external storage

There have been a few threads on the subject and I have not yet found a
good answer.

Is there a recommended way to identify a list of real *external* storage
media?

Like many people we need to export data to an sdcard so that users can
copy it, edit it, or use it elsewhere. And copy it back.

Short of embedding a file browser in every app, the current situation
seems untenable: we have manufacturers who make the internal sdcard
non-writiable when mounted on a PC, we have a variety of different mount
points that manufacturers use for external sdcards, and we have these
same manufacturers shipping phones with android 2.3 installed, so new
APIs are not likely to be all that useful unless that go into a
compatibility library as well.

Does anyone have a good solution to this?

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