Android open file

Question

I was trying to open a file for reading.

When using: Scanner input = new Scanner(filename); the file could not be found

but when I used:

Answer 1

This drove me crazy couple of minutes ago. I forgot to add this line to manifest:

I would expect a permission denied message. But just got a file not found...

In your case: openFileInput opens a file in your private app data directory (/data/data/your.package/filename). This never fails. But the scanner tries to open it on the root path. So when you want to read a file from SD card than you would use Environement.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath() + "/" + filename.