Google decided to do something with Android in version 4.4 KitKat that is causing a lot of grief for some, locking down an app's ability to work with external SD cards. Let's make sure we know exactly what this means before we go on: For starters, this is true external SD cards, this does not pertain to the mock 'sd card' storage space you will find on Nexus line devices, I am talking about an actual microSD card that you can physically insert and remove from your device.