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Mark_Murphy hello, Abhishek!
Mark_Murphy how can I help you today?
Abhishek Hey Mark, I hope you’re doing well.
Mark_Murphy I’m OK – how about you?
Abhishek I’m doing good.
Abhishek I have one issue in my project and the issue is related to scoped-storage
Abhishek In one of our application, we’re storing some content inside /MUSIC directory using Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(Environment.DIRECTORY_MUSIC)
Abhishek Everything works well below Android-11 but when we’re targetting Android-11, we’re not able to store any content. The problem is that, we’re able to create directories inside MUSIC directory but in those created directory, we’re unable to create any file using createNewFile api.
Abhishek I know that this is all because of scoped-storage. So my question is what should we do to create file inside any default directory?
Mark_Murphy I am surprised that you can create directories there
Mark_Murphy for music, you probably should try using MediaStore
Abhishek To my surprise, I’m able to create directories even after targetting 11.
Mark_Murphy I covered this in Elements of Android Q, though my example was for videos rather than music
Mark_Murphy https://gitlab.com/commonsguy/cw-android-q/-/tree/vFINAL/ConferenceVideos is the sample project
Abhishek thanks for sharing the lead Mark.
Abhishek I have one more thing…
What would you suggest me to do if I can go with SAF to create file inside default directory and I can also create same file in app-storage?
Abhishek What should I prefer and why
Mark_Murphy for something like media, particularly if the user should be able to use the media outside of your app, I would use the appropriate directories, albeit via MediaStore on Android 11+
Mark_Murphy so, your current approach seems fine
Abhishek current approach as in?
Mark_Murphy Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(Environment.DIRECTORY_MUSIC) on Android 10 and below
Abhishek and what about android11+
Mark_Murphy use MediaStore
Abhishek main problem is when I target 11
Mark_Murphy with MediaStore, you can write content to the same location that you are doing today, just not using File
Abhishek in the gitlab link above, are you using MediaStore for writing content for 11+?
Mark_Murphy yes, though in my case it is a video, not music
Abhishek Any lead on why I’m able to create directories still?
Mark_Murphy as I wrote, I am surprised that it works
Abhishek LOL. Yeah!
Abhishek using MediaStore, how can we create nested directories and then in inner-most directory I wanna create a file?
Abhishek It seems to be a very silly question
Mark_Murphy when you specify RELATIVE_PATH, AFAIK, that can have multiple directories in it
Mark_Murphy so, for example, I use: put(MediaStore.Video.Media.RELATIVE_PATH, "Movies/ConferenceVideos")
Mark_Murphy that will create a ConferenceVideos/ directory inside of the standard Movies/ directory
Mark_Murphy AFAIK, I could have "Movies/Hey/We/Can/Have/Many/Directories/" there instead, and it would create the whole tree
Abhishek Nice!
Mark_Murphy admittedly, I have not tried this, so I cannot guarantee it, but particularly for music, it should be supported
Abhishek And which api can we use to create a file and write content in it?
Mark_Murphy well, with MediaStore, you call insert() and get a Uri back
Mark_Murphy you then use ContentResolver and openInputStream() to write content to that location
Mark_Murphy again, this is covered in Elements of Android Q, which covers the example that I linked to
Abhishek Sounds good.
Abhishek I’ll go through the examples then.
Abhishek Thanks Mark.
Mark_Murphy happy to help!
Abhishek I’m done for today. I’ll go through the examples and if find any difficulty. Will conenct again. Thanks a ton.
Mark_Murphy 👍
Abhishek Hope, transcript will be uploaded.
Mark_Murphy yes, I will post it to https://commonsware.com/office-hours/ shortly after the end of the chat
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