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);

Answer 2

System.getenv("SECONDARY_STORAGE") returns null for Marshmallow. This is another way of finding all the externals dirs. You can check if it's removable which determines if internal/external

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.M) {
    File[] externalCacheDirs = context.getExternalCacheDirs();
    for (File file : externalCacheDirs) {
        if (Environment.isExternalStorageRemovable(file)) {
            // It's a removable storage
        }
    }
}

Answer 3

Thanks for the clues provided by you guys, especially @SmartLemon, I got the solution. In case someone else need it, I put my final solution here( to find the first listed external SD card ):

public File getExternalSDCardDirectory()
{
    File innerDir = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
    File rootDir = innerDir.getParentFile();
    File firstExtSdCard = innerDir ;
    File[] files = rootDir.listFiles();
    for (File file : files) {
        if (file.compareTo(innerDir) != 0) {
            firstExtSdCard = file;
            break;
        }
    }
    //Log.i("2", firstExtSdCard.getAbsolutePath().toString());
    return firstExtSdCard;
}

If no external SD card there, then it returns the on board storage. I will use it if the sdcard is not exist, you may need to change it.

Answer 4

//manifest file outside the application tag
//please give permission write this 
//<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>
        File file = new File("/mnt");
        String[] fileNameList = file.list(); //file names list inside the mnr folder
        String all_names = ""; //for the log information
        String foundedFullNameOfExtCard = ""; // full name of ext card will come here
        boolean isExtCardFounded = false;
        for (String name : fileNameList) {
            if (!isExtCardFounded) {
                isExtCardFounded = name.contains("ext");
                foundedFullNameOfExtCard = name;
            }
            all_names += name + "\n"; // for log
        }
        Log.d("dialog", all_names + foundedFullNameOfExtCard);

Answer 5

On some devices (for example samsung galaxy sII )internal memory card mabe be in vfat. In this case use refer last code, we obtain path internal memory card (/mnt/sdcad) but no external card. Code refer below solve this problem.

static String getExternalStorage(){
         String exts =  Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getPath();
         try {
            FileReader fr = new FileReader(new File("/proc/mounts"));       
            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fr);
            String sdCard=null;
            String line;
            while((line = br.readLine())!=null){
                if(line.contains("secure") || line.contains("asec")) continue;
            if(line.contains("fat")){
                String[] pars = line.split("\\s");
                if(pars.length<2) continue;
                if(pars[1].equals(exts)) continue;
                sdCard =pars[1]; 
                break;
            }
        }
        fr.close();
        br.close();
        return sdCard;  

     } catch (Exception e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return null;
}

Answer 6

I am sure this code will surely resolve your issues...This is working fine for me...\

try {
            File mountFile = new File("/proc/mounts");
            usbFoundCount=0;
            sdcardFoundCount=0;
            if(mountFile.exists())
             {
                Scanner usbscanner = new Scanner(mountFile);
                while (usbscanner.hasNext()) {
                    String line = usbscanner.nextLine();
                    if (line.startsWith("/dev/fuse /storage/usbcard1")) {
                        usbFoundCount=1;
                        Log.i("-----USB--------","USB Connected and properly mounted---/dev/fuse /storage/usbcard1" );
                    }
            }
         }
            if(mountFile.exists()){
                Scanner sdcardscanner = new Scanner(mountFile);
                while (sdcardscanner.hasNext()) {
                    String line = sdcardscanner.nextLine();
                    if (line.startsWith("/dev/fuse /storage/sdcard1")) {
                        sdcardFoundCount=1;
                        Log.i("-----USB--------","USB Connected and properly mounted---/dev/fuse /storage/sdcard1" );
                    }
            }
         }
            if(usbFoundCount==1)
            {
                Toast.makeText(context,"USB Connected and properly mounted", 7000).show();
                Log.i("-----USB--------","USB Connected and properly mounted" );
            }
            else
            {
                Toast.makeText(context,"USB not found!!!!", 7000).show();
                Log.i("-----USB--------","USB not found!!!!" );

            }
            if(sdcardFoundCount==1)
            {
                Toast.makeText(context,"SDCard Connected and properly mounted", 7000).show();
                Log.i("-----SDCard--------","SDCard Connected and properly mounted" );
            }
            else
            {
                Toast.makeText(context,"SDCard not found!!!!", 7000).show();
                Log.i("-----SDCard--------","SDCard not found!!!!" );

            }
        }catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }