while creating AVD what is the use of File: in SDcard generally we will choose size:
what is file:
This is option is for using an existing SD card file, if you have one. For example, you can create two emulators sharing an SD card image. Hope this helps.
This input requites the path of the file which is made by tool mksdcard which is used to create a blank FAT32 image to be used with the Android emulator. This file will be mounted in emulator as external media storage.
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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.
After updating to Android 6.0.1 i can't find the files on my sdcard programmatically.
The SD Card directory shows now "storage/9C33-6BBD/"
After this path I has my data.
How i can get them ?
System.getenv("SECONDARY_STORAGE");System.getenv("EXTERNAL_STORAGE")Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()
Doesn't work
Before updating Androiud it works well.
Have a look at getExternalFilesDirs(). It will give two paths. The second one in on the sd card.
Actually I am trying to create a SD Card space on my Android Emulator and I'm succeed into it. But the problem is that the folder of MyFile, is not available on Android Virtual device when i look for it on a click of a Apps option. And also not showing the space available when I look into the settings --> Storage.
But when i transferred one of Application into the sd card it shows the Total space and available space in sd card but still not able to found the folder of SD card memory.
How am I found it help me out please......
Thanks in Advance For any help or suggestion...............
Go to DDMS->File Explorer->mnt->sd card
Click on DDMS, select your Emulator from devices. From FileExplorer select mnt/sdcard. This is the path for the emulator's SDCard. But to look for installed application follow Riteeka's answer.
There is no folder named MyFile in emulator, and You can browse sdcard contents in FileExplorer. The path following sdcard is FileExplorer -> Data/Data/mnt/sdcard.
I think this might help you!!
I am making an app for retrieving the image and then modify the image. So when doing the project in eclipse how can i virtually create an sd card in eclipse and also put some sample images to it.?Also can someone please mention any good source for retrieving images frm sd card ,modify it and then again save it to sd card?
In Eclipse in Window| AVD Manager create AVD with an SD card.
Then in DDMS perspective you can see the contents of that SD card in File Explorer tab.
You can also push/pull files to/from this virtual SD card.
I want to make two emulators use the same SD-Card image. I automatically created a SD-Card in the first emulator and downloaded all the data to this SD-Card.
How can I load this SD-Card in another emulator? I don't want to recreate all the data on the SD-Card for every single emulator all the time.
Got it.
The android tools create an .android folder in your users home folder. This folder contains an avd folder in which a separate folder for each virtual device exists. In each of this folders a file called sdcard.img should be present. This file contains the automatically created sd card image for this AVD.
the path usually is /mnt/sdcard