How can I get the external SD card path for Android 4.0+?

Question

Samsung Galaxy S3 has an external SD card slot, which is mounted to /mnt/extSdCard.

How can I get this path by something like Environment.getExter

Answer 1

that's not true. /mnt/sdcard/external_sd can exist even if the SD card is not mounted. your application will crash when you try to write to /mnt/sdcard/external_sd when it's not mounted.

you need to check if the SD card is mounted first using:

boolean isSDPresent = Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals(Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED);