How to create file directories and folders in Android data/data/project filesystem

Question

I am working on a video editor program and am fairly new to android and java. What I would like to happen is when the user presses \"create new project\" button, a dialog pops u

Answer 1

Check out the getFilesDir method which will return the directory you're looking for. You'll probably want to make a subdirectory as well.

Answer 2

The proper way to get a directory that, for the primary device owner, resides under Android/data/packagename on external storage, is just to call getExternalFilesDir() on an available Context.

That is,

File folder = context.getExternalFilesDir("YOUR FOLDER NAME");

And also you have to add write permission in Manifest

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>

Answer 3

You can do almost all of that using the File and use something like this Save an edited image to the SD card

Answer 4

As sgarman proposed you can use the SD card (and I think it's better) but if you want to use your application dir you can get it by calling getFilesDir() from your activity, it will return a File object of /data/data/your.app/files then you can get the path and append the new directory:

String dirPath = getFilesDir().getAbsolutePath() + File.separator + "newfoldername";
File projDir = new File(dirPath);
if (!projDir.exists())
    projDir.mkdirs();
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