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John3136
John3136

Reputation: 29266

Get "My Documents" File in Android

I've got a couple of voice recordings and I'd like to play them from my code simply by telling the MediaPlayer the file to play.

Trouble is I can't find the files! The phone claims they are in "My Documents/My Recordings", as does windows when I connect the phone as a disk. But when I open that folder as a File in Java, it isn't there.

I've looked at Android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() and getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(), but I haven't found the magic incantation to get to My Documents.

Any help would be much appreciated!

< Edit > Found the files in /sdcard/My Documents/My Recordings - so I guess the questions becomes "is there a more portable way of doing it than just hard coding /sdcard?".

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3645

Answers (1)

Ken Y-N
Ken Y-N

Reputation: 15009

I think you want something like this:

Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(Environment.DIRECTORY_PICTURES);

This is described here. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a DIRECTORY_RECORDINGS...

Looking at your specific problem, the text suggests that getExternalStorageDirectory() would return My Documents on Android 4.2. Perhaps try this hack:

String myDocs = new Path(Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(Environment.DIRECTORY_PICTURES)).getParent();

Upvotes: 1

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