How do we get a current wallpaper absolute path
On Android 4.2 the wallpaper is located at:
/data/system/users/0/wallpaper
Replace the 0 with your user id (take a look in /data/system/users).
Make sure you are looking in the phone's root directory to start, NOT on the SDcard. Once you get to the right subdirectory the wallpaper file will just be called "wallpaper" and until you copy it to the SDcard and rename it to "YourName.jpg" the picture viewers may not recognize it as an image file.
I tried both ES File Explorer and Root Explorer (download from Marketplace) to copy the file from the phone root area., i.e. phone ROOT/data/data/com.android.settings/files/wallpaper...it's the lowest level of the phone storage itself, similar to "computer" in windows.
Probably the File Explorer on your phone won't let you access the root (your phone shouldn't need ROOT privileges just to copy the file)
use wallpaperManager and call getWallpaperInfo. This will return you a wallpaperinfo object which contains all the info about the wallpaper. Read more about the wallpapernfo here.
I would imagine that the current wallpaper will be stored in a private system folder.
On Android Oreo and using one of the provided wallpapers from the system, the wallpaper I wanted wasn't on the path mentioned by the accepted answer but I found the apk that had it on a system folder.
I got it from the path: system/framework/framework-res.apk
I had to open the apk and extract: /res/drawable-nodpi-v4/default_wallpaper.png.
Android Oreo is not in the place from other comments
Internal Storage/Android/data/com.android.systemui/files/backupwallpapers
I just had to find a wallpaper that I deleted from my downloads folder.
Download the apk file ...
go to this path...you can find it here
Download\com.amber.launcher.skin.samsung.galaxy_2018-08-24\res\drawable-nodpi-v4\bg_wallpaper.jpg
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So I'm making an app that requests a file from the phone's storage (external storage - not external SD Card, the internal one). But the path is awkward when I select the file from Downloads: /document/[number here, for example, 4].
Does anyone know how to get the real path of that file? Because it exists on the Download folder, but I wanted it to when it's selected, I get the real path of it and not that weird path which actually doesn't even exist. This happens at least on Nougat (Android Studio emulator) and on KitKat (both the emulator and my phone). Any help is appreciated.
As pointed by Abhay Koradiya and Nandan Desai, the path was an Uri path, so I used this code to solve the problem and convert to normal path, given by Abhay Koradiya: http://technophilegeek.blogspot.com/2018/11/android-get-file-path-from-uri-real.html. Again, thank you both for the help!
Im using the latest version of Android Studio and it won't allow me to add and external SD Card made with "mksdcard". In previous versions this was possible but now it just reverts to blank every time I try to add a new SD card.
Anyone face this problem or know how to fix?
One of the issues that the Android forgot to mention is with Android Studio 3.0 when you create AVD you need to now create an image for the SD CARD with the
mksdcard tool to create a FAT32 disk image. After you use this tool then when you are creating the AVD you will see under advanced view the SD CARD area the
External files click that and navigate to where you stored the sdCard.img file you created with mksdcard tool.
Here is a bonus trick USE WITH CAUTION you can tell that emulator that it has the SD CARD ejected by changing this value hw.sdCard=yes in its config.ini file from
yes to no. How to find the config.ini file
Windows Explore find the android/avd/device name open the device name file then
with a FILE EDITOR like Sublime Text make the change to hw.sdCard=no and do a
SAVE AS I suggest you not use MS notepad to do this
I was facing the same problem today and found your question here on SO.
I was able to solve this issue by finding the config.ini file of the AVD itself,
and by editing it manually (e.g. with Notepad). On my Windows 10 machine the file is this one.
C:\Users\peter\.android\avd\Nexus_5_API_25.avd\config.ini
In that file I had to manually edit the value of this property as follows.
sdcard.path=C:\Programs\Android\SD_Card_Image\SD_Card001.img
That seems to make Android Studio to not revert back to a blank external file name.
EDIT:
The weird thing is that even you specify an external file for your SD card image (as opposed to a studio managed SD card), that doesn't mean the AVD is using this exact file which you specified. Seems it uses it just initially (for initialization). Then Android Studio creates a copy of the image file somewhere (inside the AVD folder it seems) and from there on it uses his own copy. That was quite a surprising behavior to me. I even find it buggy. If that's what's intended, then what is the purpose of having the option to specify an external file?
That page does the same to me for "Device Frame" checkbox. It's always unchecked even though it does apply the skin.
So check first whether you can access the SD as you're supposed to.
I want to show my android Application data directory on external storage like shown in image (with icon).
I am currently using simple directory to store files.
please give your thoughts on this .
thanks in advance ..
http://i.stack.imgur.com/fQbtH.png
All folders on Android are normal folders, ES File Explorer not uses any recognition system, people associates folders and every association is sent to ES File Explorer's database and majority of associations wins and finally folder is assigned with icon.
I get the difference between the two but is there a way to see the internal storage file? Because I want to check if the file is like I want it to be.
Then I created a external file and when I'm programming in eclipse and I test my app the file is created and I can see it on my phone via a filemanager but when I browse via my windows explorer to the HTC memory the file isn't there. Is this because I'm working in eclipse and this is debug? Or is there a way to check the file on my computer?
Thanks already
public static String filePath = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + your folder path
it give a path of your memory storage either it is internal or external it give
Bhanu Sharma solution works. For the external file there is in eclipse a nice way.
Open the file explorer window in eclipse and then you can click a file and right above there are icons to push and pull the file to your device. ;-)
I'm using HTC Dream and trying to read the images stored in the "default" album folder of this phone. But I've yet to found out what's the folder path to those images file.
When I mount the phone to my comp, some of the default images are in:
/E0FD-1813/DCIM/
and the photos taken using the phone are stored in
/E0FD-1813/DCIM/100MEDIA/
But using those paths, accessing the images throws a "No Such File" error.
So
do you know what's the path to that image folder? What would be the path patterns (if any) in other Android phones?
I don't need to set any additional permission to access those files, do I?
Do you know how I can build a "file browsing" widget in my activity? I've searched and seems like there is no such widget and I've to install app that does file browsing. In any case, how to incorporate that as a file-browsing view in my current activity?
Thanks for your kind advice!
But I've yet to found out what's the folder path to those images file.
There is no single folder.
do you know what's the path to that image folder?
There is no single folder. Use the MediaStore content provider.