http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/data-storage.html#filesInternal

Files in your application's data directory are by default only accessibe by
the application.

Even if you make the files world-readable, the data directory is not
browserable.

Creating the files you want to share with a computer on the memory card is
perfectly Ok.

-- Kostya

2011/11/10 pkruse <[email protected]>

> So i've been stuck on this a while, and I haven't found a good answer.
> I'm trying to write an application that creates a CSV file that I can
> manually copy from my device to my computer and open in Excel.
> However, it seems I am not able to directly view the files created by
> my application in the non-external storage.
>
> I assumed I'd be able to browse and see it in /data/data/ under my
> application name. I am looking at the phone data from a windows
> machine with the phone mounted as a USB drive.
>
> To solve this, am I limited to only creating the file on an SD card?
> It seems like there has to be another way...
>
> I have heard that if my phone is rooted I can see the files, but I
> obviously don't want to require my users to have their phone rooted.
>
> Any advice on this would be helpful, thanks.
>
>
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