Find location of a removable SD card

Question

Is there an universal way to find the location of an external SD card?

Please, do not be confused with External Storage.

Environment.getExternalStorage

Answer 1

You can try to use the support library function called of ContextCompat.getExternalFilesDirs() :

      final File[] appsDir=ContextCompat.getExternalFilesDirs(getActivity(),null);
      final ArrayList extRootPaths=new ArrayList<>();
      for(final File file : appsDir)
        extRootPaths.add(file.getParentFile().getParentFile().getParentFile().getParentFile());

The first one is the primary external storage, and the rest are supposed to be real SD-cards paths.

The reason for the multiple ".getParentFile()" is to go up another folder, since the original path is

.../Android/data/YOUR_APP_PACKAGE_NAME/files/

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EDIT: here's a more comprehensive way I've created, to get the sd-cards paths:

  /**
   * returns a list of all available sd cards paths, or null if not found.
   *
   * @param includePrimaryExternalStorage set to true if you wish to also include the path of the primary external storage
   */
  @TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB)
  public static List getSdCardPaths(final Context context, final boolean includePrimaryExternalStorage)
    {
    final File[] externalCacheDirs=ContextCompat.getExternalCacheDirs(context);
    if(externalCacheDirs==null||externalCacheDirs.length==0)
      return null;
    if(externalCacheDirs.length==1)
      {
      if(externalCacheDirs[0]==null)
        return null;
      final String storageState=EnvironmentCompat.getStorageState(externalCacheDirs[0]);
      if(!Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED.equals(storageState))
        return null;
      if(!includePrimaryExternalStorage&&VERSION.SDK_INT>=VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB&&Environment.isExternalStorageEmulated())
        return null;
      }
    final List result=new ArrayList<>();
    if(includePrimaryExternalStorage||externalCacheDirs.length==1)
      result.add(getRootOfInnerSdCardFolder(externalCacheDirs[0]));
    for(int i=1;i