File operations in android Q beta

Question

1)Target set to Android Q with android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

2) use getExternalStorageDirectoryor getExternalStoragePublicDirectoryand FileOutputStream(file)saving file throws

java.io.FileNotFoundException: /storage/emulated/0/myfolder/mytext.txt open failed: ENOENT (No such file or directory)

3) use getExternalFilesDirapi and saving is success but wont show up even after MediaScannerConnection.scanFile.

     /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/my.com.ui/files/Download/myfolder/mytext.txt

What is best way to copy file from internal memory to SDCARD in android Q and refresh.

Answer 1

In Android API 29 and above you can use the below code to store files, images and videos to external storage.

//First, if your picking your file using "android.media.action.IMAGE_CAPTURE" then store that file in applications private Path(getExternalFilesDir()) as below.

File destination = new File(context.getExternalFilesDir(Environment.DIRECTORY_PICTURES), fileName);

//Then use content provider to get access to Media-store as below.

 ContentValues values = new ContentValues(); 
 values.put(MediaStore.Images.Media.TITLE, fileName); 
 values.put(MediaStore.Images.Media.DISPLAY_NAME, fileName);

//if you want specific mime type, specify your mime type here. otherwise leave it blank, it will take default file mime type

values.put(MediaStore.Images.Media.MIME_TYPE, "MimeType"); 
values.put(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATE_ADDED, System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000); 
values.put(MediaStore.Images.Media.DATE_TAKEN, System.currentTimeMillis()); 
values.put(MediaStore.Images.Media.RELATIVE_PATH, "Pictures/" + "path"); // specify 
 storage path

// insert to media-store using content provider, it will return URI.

Uri uri = cxt.getContentResolver().insert(MediaStore.Files.getContentUri("external"), values); 

//Use that URI to open the file.

ParcelFileDescriptor descriptor = context.getContentResolver().openFileDescriptor(uri,"w"); //"w" specify's write mode
FileDescriptor fileDescriptor = descriptor.getFileDescriptor();

// read file from private path.

InputStream dataInputStream = cxt.openFileInput(privatePath_file_path);

//write file into out file-stream.

 OutputStream output = new FileOutputStream(fileDescriptor);
 byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
 int bytesRead;
 while ((bytesRead = dataInputStream.read(buf)) > 0) 
 {
  output.write(buf, 0, bytesRead);
 }
 datanputStream.close();
 output.close();
}