Where is the temp folder on Android devices?

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Alexi picture Alexi · Mar 2, 2010 · Viewed 78.9k times · Source

Where is the temp folder located on Android phones?

Answer

starfry picture starfry · Dec 12, 2016

The temporary directory is /data/local/tmp.

I've seen some comments that claim you need to be rooted to access it but I'm not sure that's true. Whilst it is true that you need root to freely access /data, this is not required for /data/local/tmp.

I have verified this on Android 5.1.1.

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