Do you have the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission?
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 5:24 PM, milind <mili...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The following code works when I either have no min sdk version
> specified in the app manifest or if it's 5 or greater. But if I set
> the min sdk level to 4 (Android 1.6) , it fails to create a
> subdirectory in the sdcard. There is no error. mkdir() or mkdirs()
> just returns false.
>
> String msg;
> try {
> String theState = Environment.getExternalStorageState();
> if (theState.equals(Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED)) {
> File theBasedir =
> Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
> File theSubdir = new File(theBasedir, "subdir");
> boolean created = theSubdir.mkdirs();
> msg = theSubdir.exists() ? "Success" : "Fail";
> } else {
> msg = "Invalid State";
> }
> } catch (Exception e) {
> msg = "Error - " + e;
> }
> System.out.println(msg);
>
> Am I doing something wrong here? Or is this a bug? I'd prefer not to
> set the target to 2.1 and min version to 1.6. But right now, I have
> to set it to 2.0 for it to work.
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