Location of /Downloads folder for devices with and without SD card

Question

Please let me know what are default locations for Downloads folder on devices with and without SD card.

And how can I check if particular phone doesn\'

Answer 1

I do not know the internal download location.

To programmatically obtain the external download location, use:

Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()+"/Downloads/"

Or at least, that is what is it on my HTC EVO 4G.

For my app, i developed a simple class that detected the current state of the SD Card, simplified into human-understood terms. It can be easily done using

Environment.getExternalStorageState()

and comparing it to the various default states, defined under the Environment class. The important ones are Environment.MEDIA_REMOVED and Environment.MEDIA_SHARED. The first (i believe) tells you if there is any external storage at all and the second tells you if it is mounted or not.

Note: when comparing the states, use .equals as they are strings, not integers like most state objects in Android.

Answer 2

To check and see if a device has an SD card, you use: Environment.getExternalStorageState() if you don't have an SD card, you use: Environment.getDataDirectory()

Essentially, if there is no SD card, you can create your own directory on the device locally. I've listed some code that might help:

/*
             * This sections checks the phone to see if there is a SD card. if
             * there is an SD card, a directory is created on the SD card to
             * store the test log results. If there is not a SD card, then the
             * directory is created on the phones internal hard drive
             */
                    //if there is no SD card, create new directory objects to make directory on device
            if (Environment.getExternalStorageState() == null) {
                            //create new file directory object
                directory = new File(Environment.getDataDirectory()
                        + "/RobotiumTestLog/");
                photoDirectory = new File(Environment.getDataDirectory()
                        + "/Robotium-Screenshots/");
                /*
                 * this checks to see if there are any previous test photo files
                 * if there are any photos, they are deleted for the sake of
                 * memory
                 */
                if (photoDirectory.exists()) {
                    File[] dirFiles = photoDirectory.listFiles();
                    if (dirFiles.length != 0) {
                        for (int ii = 0; ii <= dirFiles.length; ii++) {
                            dirFiles[ii].delete();
                        }
                    }
                }
                // if no directory exists, create new directory
                if (!directory.exists()) {
                    directory.mkdir();
                }

                // if phone DOES have sd card
            } else if (Environment.getExternalStorageState() != null) {
                // search for directory on SD card
                directory = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()
                        + "/RobotiumTestLog/");
                photoDirectory = new File(
                        Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()
                                + "/Robotium-Screenshots/");
                if (photoDirectory.exists()) {
                    File[] dirFiles = photoDirectory.listFiles();
                    if (dirFiles.length > 0) {
                        for (int ii = 0; ii < dirFiles.length; ii++) {
                            dirFiles[ii].delete();
                        }
                        dirFiles = null;
                    }
                }
                // if no directory exists, create new directory to store test
                // results
                if (!directory.exists()) {
                    directory.mkdir();
                }
            }// end of SD card checking

Hope this helps.