Here's a code of MainActivity.java
to save a file named filename.txt
in App's Internal Storage, which is working fine.
package com.bla.smthing;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.Toast;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
EditText textmsg;
static final int READ_BLOCK_SIZE = 100;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
textmsg=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.editText1);
}
// write text to file
public void WriteBtn(View v) {
// add-write text into file
try {
FileOutputStream fileout=openFileOutput("mytextfile.txt", MODE_PRIVATE);
OutputStreamWriter outputWriter=new OutputStreamWriter(fileout);
outputWriter.write(textmsg.getText().toString());
outputWriter.close();
//display file saved message
Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "File saved successfully!",
Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
// Read text from file
public void ReadBtn(View v) {
//reading text from file
try {
FileInputStream fileIn=openFileInput("mytextfile.txt");
InputStreamReader InputRead= new InputStreamReader(fileIn);
char[] inputBuffer= new char[READ_BLOCK_SIZE];
String s="";
int charRead;
while ((charRead=InputRead.read(inputBuffer))>0) {
// char to string conversion
String readstring=String.copyValueOf(inputBuffer,0,charRead);
s +=readstring;
}
InputRead.close();
textmsg.setText(s);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
I am able to see the file by File Explorer of Android Studio. How can I save the file in a directory say files/Somefolder/otherfolderchild/filename.txt
?
Currently, it is saving as files/filename.txt
Do I need to create additional parent file directories for that?
Try this it might help you. For the above marshmallow version please check the write permissions.
public void saveToExternalStorage() {
String fullPath = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath() + "/directoryName";
try
{
File dir = new File(fullPath);
if (!dir.exists()) {
dir.mkdirs();
}
OutputStream fOut = null;
File file = new File(fullPath, "fileName.txt");
if(file.exists())
file.delete();
file.createNewFile();
fOut = new FileOutputStream(file);
fOut.flush();
fOut.close();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Log.e("saveToExternalStorage()", e.getMessage());
}
}