From what I've been able to find, Android apps are sandboxed, and can only list, read, and write files within the application's data directory (e.g. /data/data/<pkgname>). but, what about an application that allows users to view photos on an SD card (or play music, etc)? Surely this must be possible. Does one have to write a Service Provider for this?
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I am working on an android app. Where i need to parse some plist files from assets folder. I do understand how to use assets in android but now problem is that file sizes are more than 1MB and so android gives error Data Exceeds UNCOMPRESS_DATA_MAX (2183588 vs 1048576). how to access such larger files from assets? Also I cant reduce a file into small buffers because i am just sending it to "DocumentBuilder.parse(in)" as a whole so can not use buffer. The error is on line: Document doc = db.parse(in).
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a Samsung Galaxy I7500 using android 1.5. I extended my phone with a 16GB microSD. I copied a big music collection (around 800 files) into a folder on this SD. Now the problem is that the music player can't find all the files.
I know that there are several threads about android not finding music. The answers are usually that the library hasn't yet been updated or that the ID3 tags are not correct.
I have checked both.
Btw. I can play the files using ASTRO.
In my opinion it seems as if android can't build up a library with too many entries. If I rename the files or put them into different folders, songs disappear and reappear quite randomly.
Do you have any solutions? Is there a music player which doesn't use the native music players index of files?
My application gets playlist from a XML file, requests URL of mp3 file from server, downloads and plays it. It was able to download mp3 file but unable to play it. When I used emulator with Android 2.1, it was displayed in LogCat:
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Is it possible to save media files to my phone or sd card from an MMS message?? I get music files and video clips all the time, but I can't seem to save them. Any ideas?
View 7 Replies View Relatedwhen i mounted my phone to my computer, i deleted all the pictures in the folder album thumbs where all the pictures taken from the phone go. i thought at the time it would delete the pictures from my phone too, however it did not. but the problem im having is now that when i mount my phone to my computer, i can not access any media from my phone at all to upload to the computer, how can i reverse or fix this problem?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs there any app that, without using a remote desktop client (VNC/RDB), you can use to access files on your PC?
View 9 Replies View Relatedcurrently Media Player getCurrentPosition gives the timestamp of the song being played by the music player . is it possible to extract the data from that poit onwards or do we have any api using which we can extract the chunk of mp3 file which is being played.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI tried to access the data from "data/data" folder from emulator memory and it worked fine but when i created the same structure in android phone then (1). It didn't gave me permissions to create the directory "files" in phone memory ( data/data/package name/) (2) any how i created the (data/data/package name//files/album) structure through coding but now i am unable to do "cd files" I need to push some image files in the folder data/data/package name// files/album.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm lost here.
I create files using this (stripped) code...
But I get a FileNotFoundException on the FileOutputStream creation...
I want to play a alarm on my app so I need to know how to include it and to access the file with the media player?
View 2 Replies View RelatedCan I access android MediaProvider (Images & Videos) databases directly from my code rather then through a content provider ?
I'm planning to have my own Cursor implementation so inside it I want to access the media databases directly, possible or android does not allow it ?
Is there a program for the Android OS that allows to to access your files and directories, like 'Windows Explorer' does on your desktop pc? I have some audio files that I would like to move to the ringtone directory.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to find a way to access private files created by other packages.According to the dev site (plz see the following), I can read/write files of other packages if some flags are set on the create of those files, but I don't know how. Can I just open those files with Context.openFileInput(or Context.openFileOutput)? Do I need a different way for those three cases? By three cases, I mean getSharedPreferences(String, int), openFileOutput(String, int), openOrCreateDatabase(String, int, SQLiteDatabase.CursorFactory).
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am creating an SDK .I have got some problems as follows:
i need to have some predefined images along with the jar.please suggest any method to do this thing. like 1) how to keep the files in jar and 2) how to use it in code.
If any code is very helpful or just any information is very helpful.
So I just got my Nexus One (like literally a few hours ago) and yay everything is nice (well not everything - for some reason I can't download apps from the market). Anyways, I figure, let's see how this thing is for reading pdfs.
I mounted it as a drive via usb. Created a docs directory, and place a pdf book in it.
Ok...Now how do I open that file?
Again we're talking Nexus One
2.1-update1
Kernel 2.6.29-01117
Build ERE27 (who the hell has letters in their build names!?)
I'm writing an application that will ship in two versions: Android and PC version.
Is there a simple way to access files from the shared code?
Using Java.io is simple, but I don't know how to access android resources or assets using it. And I can't write methods that operate on FileInputStreams instead, because some files contain references to another ones, so I need a way to access them from the method code. Any suggestions?
Can any one tell me which is the best way to access the file system in android device, also i want to list all the files in the application directory.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a question about some removed apps from a Gingerbread os. I can't seem to find any real Detailed info on these 8 files below. I want to know what each one is what it does and if they rely on others to be installed, and mostly do they need to be/should they be installed:
Dun.apk
FactoryTest.apk
InputEventApp.apk
JobManager.apk[code]....
I have a clone of the iPhone 5, which hangs in the mediatek screen.The phone will then start the recovery mode (cmw). I can flesh the rom from cmw but do not know which file to flesh..The mobile phone does not have a removable battery but is welded with 2 wires to the motherboard, there are no written on the cover.The motherboard is written D09_MB_V2.2 2012 1126 and inside I found a memory card 8Gb.
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhat will be the best storage choice for an application with huge amount of mb in media? The application will not be in android market.
First choice was to use assets/ folder. At least, 160MB of audio is shipped with the application. When I moved all the media to the assets/ folder, I end up with:
"Conversion to Dalvik format failed: Unable to execute dex: null"
And reading: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2328 suggest me that maybe it's not such a good idea to ship all the media in an .apk file. I think that the problem has nothing to do with large .java files, as it arises when I copy the bunch of audio to assets/.
I was thinking in using the sd card storage. But, I don't want the user to accidentally remove the media files. I want it to be private, not accesible to possible deletions. So, another approach is to use the private storage and download the media in the application first run, or something like that.
I am using the latest git code to play with. I wanna know how can I play with GALLERY, it always complain "NO MEDIA FOUND", I do wanna know where and how can I put some JPG, BMP or something other media stuff into the emulator/Real device to make the GALLERY app display them.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI want to show the list of media files (.mp3, .mp4...etc) available in sdcard. How can I do this?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have develop and app that downloads music files and should add them to the music library.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to play a playlist I get using the MediaStore provider. However, when I try playing a playlist nothing happens. Can a MediaPlayer play a playlist (m3u file) and do I need to set the first track to play? This is my test code in the onCreate() method:
Uri uri = MediaStore.Audio.Playlists.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI;
if(uri == null) { Log.e("Uri = null");
} String[] projection = new String[] { MediaStore.Audio.Playlists._ID,
MediaStore.Audio.Playlists.NAME, MediaStore.Audio.Playlists.DATA };
Cursor c = managedQuery(uri, projection, null, null, null);
if(c == null) { Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),
R.string.alarm_tone_picker_error, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
return; } if(!c.moveToFirst()) { c.close();
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), R.string.alarm_tone_picker_no_music,
Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show(); return; } c.moveToFirst(); try {
MediaPlayer player = new MediaPlayer(); player.setDataSource(c.getString(2));
player.start(); } catch(Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
I have turned on every volume stream.
I don't how to do this task.using the getpath() method i can get the path of the database.In the Terminal Emulator using commends i can see the database file which contains the queries what i have executed,that file is saved in the emulator memory.How can i access that file from an anroid application.
View 1 Replies View RelatedSome html files are in my sd card. I am using qualcomm surfs. By using adb shell commands or "adb shell am start -n com.android.browser/.BrowserActivity file://sdcard/example.html" how can i access or open that html files. Is there any method for accessing sd card files.
View 4 Replies View Relatedaccess home computer/files via droid? is there such an app?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI"m always connected by wifi at home and i would like to access my files through wifi. There are a lot of web browser based wifi apps (like Websharing) but I was wondering if there are any drag and drop methods as if I was connected by the USB cable. I want to access the SD card through My Computer and not Firefox.
View 19 Replies View RelatedI have to make a dedicated image viewer app for Android 2.x.
There are too many jpeg image files: about 2000~ jpegs, over 100MB.
I want access the image files with their file names,
but I couldn't find such an example.
By the way, is it okay to put many image files in /res/drawable folder?
I heard that the android application cannot be installed on sdcard and
the program repository is very small so 100MB app cannot be installed generally.
I found some examples which download the large data files on sdcard online,
but I cannot run a web server to host the data files,
and I must upload the fully packaged program on Android Market. (Should I build one apk file?)
What are the best practices for managing too many resource images (or something) in Android?