Working With Files
PhD. Huỳnh Hữu Nghĩa
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Overview
⮚ Android devices offer two storage areas, internal and
external.
⮚ The internal storage is private to the application. The user
and other applications cannot access it.
⮚ The external storage is where you store files that will be
shared with other applications or that the user will be able to
access.
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Overview
⮚ For example, the built-in Camera application stores digital
image files in the external storage so the user can easily
copy them to a computer.
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Internal Storage
❖ All applications can read from and write to internal storage.
❖ The location of the internal storage is /data/data/[app
package], example so if your application package is
com.example.myapp, the internal directory for this
application is /data/data/com.example.myapp.
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Internal Storage - Example
❖ Writing data to file.
String filename = “hello.txt”;
String data = “Welcome to our class”;
FileOutputStream fout = openFileOutput(filename, Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
fout.write(data.getBytes());
fout.close();
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Internal Storage - Example
❖ Reading data from file.
String filename = “hello.txt”;
String data = “”; int c;
FileInputStream fin = openFileInput(filename);
while((c = fin.read()) != -1){
data += Character.toString((char)c));
}
fin.close();
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Internal Storage
❖ Some functions:
▪ getFileDir(): return the absolute directory path containing the saved files.
▪ getDir(): create or access a directory within the internal storage.
▪ deleteFile(): delete a file stored in the device's internal memory.
▪ fileList(): returns an array of files stored by the current application
instance.
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External Storage
⮚ There are two types of files that can be written to external
storage, private files and public files.
⮚ Private files are private to the application and will be
deleted when the application is uninstalled.
⮚ Public files, on the other hand, are meant to be shared with
other applications or accessible to the user.
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External Storage
⮚ External storage may be removable. As such, there is a
difference between files stored in internal storage and files
stored in external storage as public files.
⮚ Files in internal storage are secure and cannot be accessed
by the user or other applications.
⮚ Public files in external storage do not enjoy the same level
of security as the user can remove the storage and use
some tool to access the files.
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External Storage
⮚ Since external storage can be removed, when you try to
read from or write to it, you should first test if external
storage is available.
⮚ To inquire if external storage is available, use one of these
methods.
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External Storage
public boolean isExternalStorageWritable() {
String state = Environment.getExternalStorageState();
return Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED.equals(state);
} kiem tra
public boolean isExternalStorageReadable() {
String state = Environment.getExternalStorageState();
return (Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED.equals(state) ||
Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED_READ_ONLY.equals(state));
}
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External Storage
⮚ The Environment class provides the following fields that you can use
for various file types. cac tap tinh cua external
▪ Directory_ALARMS ▪ Directory_MUSIC
▪ Directory_DCIM ▪ Directory_NOTIFICATIONS
▪ Directory_DOCUMENTS ▪ Directory_PICTURES
▪ Directory_DOWNLOADS ▪ Directory_PODCASTS
▪ Directory_MOVIES ▪ Directory_RINGTONES
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Demo
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