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I want to create some pre-created files when my Android application is installed. I would like to create the file in both the internal memory (data/data//files/) and in a newly created sdcard directories (/sdcard//data1/). How can I do this? You can save you files in \res\raw and write the code to store this files to the desired locations if it does not exist when the app start. Check this to access the internal memory and sdcard and access the raw file using the following InputStream databaseInputStream = getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.yourfile); If you have a larger number of files and

Goetz's Java Concurrency in Practice , page 41, mentions how this reference can escape during construction. A "don't do this" example: public class ThisEscape { public ThisEscape(EventSource source) { source.registerListener( new EventListener() { public void onEvent(Event e) { doSomething(e); } }); } } Here this is "escaping" via the fact that doSomething(e) refers to the enclosing ThisEscape instance. The situation can be fixed by using static factory methods (first construct the plain object, then register the listener) instead of public constructors (doing all the work). The book goes on: