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Hey do you think you can recommend a good utility to move apps to the SD card? I understand that performance is a major issue and I've even seen apps not work properly when run off there, which is why I only ever move things like Icon Packs or other referential apps, not stuff that needs to function in realtime and stay loaded. But Lineage does not allow this, even if you turn it on in developer options. Pretty sure that even being there is only an oversight. But the device I'm toying with only has 16GB internal, and icon packs are huge and absolutely don't need to be on internal.
Not really, unfortunately for a couple of reasons.
My devices running Lineage have sufficient internal storage that I haven't really needed to mess with it on those or look for / familiarize myself with a solution.
My daily-driver device running do-googled stock Android only has 16 GB, but it does allow moving apps to SD. Sadly, I've had lots of issues with using the SD card in "extended storage" mode. Like, consistently, after each reboot, all my app launcher icons were gone from the home screen for anything that was on SD. Another time (and this is what made me say hell with it lol), I rebooted and the SD card was just wiped.
I've side-stepped the issue by using app-level options to store data on SD (with the apps still being on internal storage). e.g. I've got Organic Maps set to store the map files on SD, Nextcloud uses the SD card for its app data, camera defaults to the SD card, etc. It also helps that I don't run a lot of apps in general; pretty much most of my "apps" are just pinned web apps.
Oh, yeah the extended storage mode is iffy. They're all iffy to be sure, and I've seen icons be faded upon boot also but immediately they catch up and show solid.
Ironically, at least in my experience it is better to leave the SD as external, and use developer options to allow moving app to external even if not in the manifest. It's all about what apps you choose to move, less about the performance. Like I said, I don't move apps that need to run realtime and read and write data regularly, but stuff like icon packs, books, stuff like that, really anything that loads data only occasionally.
Right now, my real phone is still iPhone, but I'm thinking I'll change to android eventually. But I use several android devices as additional pocket computers.
I can't fathom why lineage devs made it like, not feasible. That should be up to the user. I did try to integrate some SD cards as extended internal storage but it fails every time with some java error and reports the SD corrupted. Lol three brand new chips are not corrupted dumbass Lineage lol. Good ones, too! So yeah, they effectively wrote it off as not an option. That's the one problem I have at the moment that I strongly disapprove. Other than that, the performance is insane! Similar with Cyanogen.
I still want to try out stuff like ResurrectionRemix, Havoc, /e/ and maybe Rising. For now I'm content mostly with Lineage on this Galaxy S5 but I really want to get something working that will let me move apps to the SD.
Thank you for all the replies and your insights. Greatly appreciated!