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Fred Dow
Fred Dow

Reputation: 3

Xamarin Android create and write to a file

I am new to Xamarin. I have VS2017 and have my device (Samsung note4 ) connected tested and it works. But I want to create and write to a file 

 string path = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal);
        string filename = Path.Combine(path, "myfile.txt");

        using (var streamWriter = new StreamWriter(filename, true))
        {
            streamWriter.WriteLine(DateTime.UtcNow);
        }

I run this on the device and no error or anything. debugger is not throwing any error. but when I search for this file on my phone, I can't find it any where at all. did it create a file, and wrote to it? if so, where would that be?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 916

Answers (1)

Nurhak Kaya
Nurhak Kaya

Reputation: 1781

Your code should work, try to read it to make sure where it is; This is how you can do it, for more details please see the xamarin forum post, hope it helps;

        string path = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal);

        string filename = Path.Combine(path, "myfile.txt");

        using (var streamWriter = new StreamWriter(filename, true))
        {
            streamWriter.WriteLine(DateTime.UtcNow);
        }

        using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(filename))
        {
            string content = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
            System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(content);
        }

Upvotes: 1

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