How can I get the external SD card path for Android 4.0+?

Question

Samsung Galaxy S3 has an external SD card slot, which is mounted to /mnt/extSdCard.

How can I get this path by something like Environment.getExter

Answer 1

This solution (assembled from other answers to this question) handles the fact (as mentioned by @ono) that System.getenv("SECONDARY_STORAGE") is of no use with Marshmallow.

Tested and working on:

• Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (Android 4.1.1 - Stock)
• Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 (Android 4.2.2 - Stock)
• Samsung Galaxy S4 (Android 4.4 - Stock)
• Samsung Galaxy S4 (Android 5.1.1 - Cyanogenmod)

• Samsung Galaxy Tab A (Android 6.0.1 - Stock)

  /**
   * Returns all available external SD-Card roots in the system.
   *
   * @return paths to all available external SD-Card roots in the system.
   */
  public static String[] getStorageDirectories() {
      String [] storageDirectories;
      String rawSecondaryStoragesStr = System.getenv("SECONDARY_STORAGE");
  
      if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT) {
          List results = new ArrayList();
          File[] externalDirs = applicationContext.getExternalFilesDirs(null);
          for (File file : externalDirs) {
              String path = file.getPath().split("/Android")[0];
              if((Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP && Environment.isExternalStorageRemovable(file))
                      || rawSecondaryStoragesStr != null && rawSecondaryStoragesStr.contains(path)){
                  results.add(path);
              }
          }
          storageDirectories = results.toArray(new String[0]);
      }else{
          final Set rv = new HashSet();
  
          if (!TextUtils.isEmpty(rawSecondaryStoragesStr)) {
              final String[] rawSecondaryStorages = rawSecondaryStoragesStr.split(File.pathSeparator);
              Collections.addAll(rv, rawSecondaryStorages);
          }
          storageDirectories = rv.toArray(new String[rv.size()]);
      }
      return storageDirectories;
  }