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javaandroidkotlinandroid-download-manager
Moeinh77
Moeinh77

Reputation: 377

How to find the android directory that files are downloaded into it

i have been making an app which download files from internet and save themon storage i have 2 questions :first how to address it to save them in downlod folder which is the exact address? and second where is this "/data/user/0/com.example.moein.download_kotlin/files/Downloads/file.jpg" directory that it is using now? here is my code 

            mainFetch = Fetch.Builder(applicationContext, "Download 1 file")
            .setDownloadConcurrentLimit(1) .
            .enableLogging(true)
            .build()

    //Single enqueuing example
    val request = Request("https://www.sample-videos.com/img/Sample-jpg-image-50kb.jpg",
            applicationContext.getFilesDir().getPath().toString() +"/Downloads/file.jpg")
    request.priority=Priority.HIGH;
    request.networkType=NetworkType.ALL
    request.addHeader("download", "2")

    mainFetch!!.enqueue(request, object : Func<Download> {
        override fun call(t: Download) {

        Toast.makeText(applicationContext,t.file,Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
       //toasts /data/user/0/com.example.moein.download_kotlin/files/Downloads/file.jpg

        }
    }, object : Func<Error> {
        override fun call(t: Error) {
            Toast.makeText(applicationContext,t.toString(),Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }
    })`

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1572

Answers (1)

Sagar
Sagar

Reputation: 24907

first how to address it to save them in downlod folder which is the exact address?

Use following:

Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(Environment.DIRECTORY_DOWNLOADS)

If you are targetting Andrpid 6.0 and above, remember to request for WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE to write to this directory and READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE to read from this directory. User needs to grant these permissions,hence you have to implement permission model. You can follow this official tutorial to implement this.

second where is this "/data/user/0/com.example.moein.download_kotlin/files/Downloads/file.jpg" directory that it is using now?

This is your application-specific directory. Files saved to this are private to your app, and other apps cannot access them (nor can the user, unless they have root access). This makes internal storage a good place for internal app data that the user doesn't need to directly access.

However I found on Samsung device that ES file explorer can access this directory. But its a mystery how they manage to do it.

Upvotes: 2

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