Find location of a removable SD card

Question

Is there an universal way to find the location of an external SD card?

Please, do not be confused with External Storage.

Environment.getExternalStorage

Answer 1

I don't know why but I need to call .createNewFile() on a File created in the public storage directories before using it. In the framework the comments for that method say it isn't useful. Here's a sample...

 String myPath = Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(Environment.DIRECTORY_PODCASTS) + File.separator + "My Directory";
            final File myDir = new File(myPath);
            try {
                myDir.mkdirs();
            } catch (Exception ex) {
                Toast.makeText(this, "error: " + ex.getMessage(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            }


        String fname = "whatever";
        File newFile = new File(myDir, fname);

        Log.i(TAG, "File exists --> " + newFile.exists()) //will be false  
    try {
            if (newFile.createNewFile()) {

                 //continue 

              } else {

                Log.e(TAG, "error creating file");

            }

        } catch (Exception e) {
            Log.e(TAG, e.toString());
        }