Thanks Dianne, this helps. On Thursday, August 9, 2012 11:34:25 PM UTC-7, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > > Not generally, when the instrumentation is running in the target process, > it is running under that uid. You could do something like put a service or > content provider (or receiver) in your instrumentation apk that you can > interact with from the instrumentation code running in the app being tested. > > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:15 AM, dnkoutso <[email protected] <javascript:> > > wrote: > >> I am writing instrumentation tests for my app and want to create a >> temporary folder to store some files. However, I dont want to do that in >> the targetContext but rather in the test context. >> >> In other words: >> File dir = getInstrumentation().*getTargetContext()*.getDir("directory", >> MODE_WORLD_READABLE); // Works, but this creates the folder in the target >> app. >> >> File dir = getInstrumentation().*getContext()*.getDir("directory", >> MODE_WORLD_READABLE); // Does not work, the exists() returns false. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Android Developers" group. >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected]<javascript:> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] <javascript:> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] <javascript:> > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. > >
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