How to Get File Path from Sd Card in Android

how to get file path from sd card in android

You can get the path of sdcard from this code:

File extStore = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();

Then specify the foldername and file name

for e.g:

"/LazyList/"+serialno.get(position).trim()+".jpg"

Getting the path to SD card

The only way I found is to semi-hardcode it:

File[] folders = myappcontext.getExternalCacheDirs();

gives you the path to the "cache" folders your app has access to (but that are deleted when you uninstall your app).

If the phone uses a removable SD card (that is currently mounted), the length of the array should be "2":

1. The path to the "cache" folder in the external (not removable) storage
2. The path to the "cache" folder on your SD card

They look something like this:

/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.mycompany.myapp/cache
/storage/xxxx-xxxx/Android/data/com.mycompany.myapp/cache

... where "x" is the number (id?) of your sd card. I've only been able to test it with 2 different SD cards and both had their own number.

Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();

should also give you

/storage/emulated/0/

which is the non-hardcoding way of getting access to the external storage. ;)

If you create a new folder on the very first level of your SD card on your PC, its path will be:

/storage/xxxx-xxxx/myfolder

I also have to warn you: While you can read the "myfolder" folder, you can't write in it (will just throw an "Access Denied" exception with Android 7) because of the changes to the whole system that came with Kitkat. But that's a different problem I'm going to address in a new question.

Find location of a removable SD card

Environment.getExternalStorageState() returns path to internal SD mount point like "/mnt/sdcard"

No, Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() refers to whatever the device manufacturer considered to be "external storage". On some devices, this is removable media, like an SD card. On some devices, this is a portion of on-device flash. Here, "external storage" means "the stuff accessible via USB Mass Storage mode when mounted on a host machine", at least for Android 1.x and 2.x.

But the question is about external SD. How to get a path like "/mnt/sdcard/external_sd" (it may differ from device to device)?

Android has no concept of "external SD", aside from external storage, as described above.

If a device manufacturer has elected to have external storage be on-board flash and also has an SD card, you will need to contact that manufacturer to determine whether or not you can use the SD card (not guaranteed) and what the rules are for using it, such as what path to use for it.

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UPDATE

Two recent things of note:

First, on Android 4.4+, you do not have write access to removable media (e.g., "external SD"), except for any locations on that media that might be returned by getExternalFilesDirs() and getExternalCacheDirs(). See Dave Smith's excellent analysis of this, particularly if you want the low-level details.

Second, lest anyone quibble on whether or not removable media access is otherwise part of the Android SDK, here is Dianne Hackborn's assessment:

...keep in mind: until Android 4.4, the official Android platform has not supported SD cards at all except for two special cases: the old school storage layout where external storage is an SD card (which is still supported by the platform today), and a small feature added to Android 3.0 where it would scan additional SD cards and add them to the media provider and give apps read-only access to their files (which is also still supported in the platform today).

Android 4.4 is the first release of the platform that has actually allowed applications to use SD cards for storage. Any access to them prior to that was through private, unsupported APIs. We now have a quite rich API in the platform that allows applications to make use of SD cards in a supported way, in better ways than they have been able to before: they can make free use of their app-specific storage area without requiring any permissions in the app, and can access any other files on the SD card as long as they go through the file picker, again without needing any special permissions.

File path from sd card

I think you want to get file from a file open dialog, check out the below link

Reference: Choose File Dialog

You can get path of SD card with the help of command below:

String baseDir = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath();
String fileName = "myFile.mp3";

So path will be

String path  = baseDir + "/your folder(s)/" + fileName;

Reference is: Android how to use Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()

Or you can try:

new File("/mnt/external_sd/your folder(s)../file.mp3");//get a file from SD card

Reference: How can I get external SD card path for Android 4.0+?

Get real path from URI of file in sdcard marshmallow

After spending time on Android Device Manager I have found solution, here it is:

If doc type id is not primary then I create path using :

filePath = "/storage/" + type + "/" + split[1];

EDIT1: in case of DocumentUri select contentUri on basis of file type

Here is complete function:

public static String getRealPathFromURI_API19(Context context, Uri uri) {
    String filePath = "";

    // ExternalStorageProvider
    if (isExternalStorageDocument(uri)) {
        final String docId = DocumentsContract.getDocumentId(uri);
        final String[] split = docId.split(":");
        final String type = split[0];

        if ("primary".equalsIgnoreCase(type)) {
            return Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + "/" + split[1];
        } else {

            if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT > 20) {
                    //getExternalMediaDirs() added in API 21
                    File extenal[] = context.getExternalMediaDirs();
                   for (File f : extenal) {
                    filePath = f.getAbsolutePath();
                    if (filePath.contains(type)) {
                        int endIndex = filePath.indexOf("Android");
                        filePath = filePath.substring(0, endIndex) + split[1];
                    }
                }
             }else{
                    filePath = "/storage/" + type + "/" + split[1];
             }
            return filePath;
        }

    } else if (isDownloadsDocument(uri)) {
        // DownloadsProvider
        final String id = DocumentsContract.getDocumentId(uri);
        //final Uri contentUri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(
        // Uri.parse("content://downloads/public_downloads"), Long.valueOf(id));

        Cursor cursor = null;
        final String column = "_data";
        final String[] projection = {column};

        try {
            cursor = context.getContentResolver().query(uri, projection, null, null, null);
            if (cursor != null && cursor.moveToFirst()) {
                final int index = cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(column);
                String result = cursor.getString(index);
                cursor.close();
                return result;
            }
        } finally {
            if (cursor != null)
                cursor.close();
        }
    } else if (DocumentsContract.isDocumentUri(context, uri)) {
        // MediaProvider
        String wholeID = DocumentsContract.getDocumentId(uri);

        // Split at colon, use second item in the array
        String[] ids = wholeID.split(":");
        String id;
        String type;
        if (ids.length > 1) {
            id = ids[1];
            type = ids[0];
        } else {
            id = ids[0];
            type = ids[0];
        }

        Uri contentUri = null;
        if ("image".equals(type)) {
            contentUri = MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI;
        } else if ("video".equals(type)) {
            contentUri = MediaStore.Video.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI;
        } else if ("audio".equals(type)) {
            contentUri = MediaStore.Audio.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI;
        }

        final String selection = "_id=?";
        final String[] selectionArgs = new String[]{id};
        final String column = "_data";
        final String[] projection = {column};
        Cursor cursor = context.getContentResolver().query(contentUri, 
            projection, selection, selectionArgs, null);

        if (cursor != null) {
            int columnIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex(column);

            if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {
                filePath = cursor.getString(columnIndex);
            }
            cursor.close();
        }
        return filePath;
    } else {
        String[] proj = {MediaStore.Audio.Media.DATA};
        Cursor cursor = context.getContentResolver().query(uri, proj, null, null, null);
        if (cursor != null) {
            int column_index = cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaStore.Audio.Media.DATA);
            if (cursor.moveToFirst())
                filePath = cursor.getString(column_index);
            cursor.close();
        }

        return filePath;
    }
    return null;
}

EDIT2 For handling host like content://com.adobe.scan.android.documents/document/ check code here

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