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And if we can find all of that on one file-system line, then the file system mounted there is very likely a good candidate for our removable SD card. We can then parse the string to look for things like storage, sdcard, vfat, ext and anything else we think would be a good indicator. Now we can do a simple call to System.IO.File.ReadAllText("/proc/mounts") to read the text out of this file, and store it in a string. Remember to turn on READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE and WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permissions in your Manifest.xml, or you won’t get the results you expect. My money is on extSdCard…Ĭan you see where we’re going with this? Good. Both of those are tagged as ‘sdcard’, and we know one of them has to be our removable one. dev/block/vold/179:9 /storage/extSdCard vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev. dev/block/vold/259:3 /storage/sdcard0 vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev. dev/block/mmcblk0p4 /mnt/.lfs j4fs rw,relatime 0 0 dev/block/mmcblk0p10 /data ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,barrier=1, Tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0ĭevpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600 0 0 Here’s an example, from my ye anciente Samsung Galaxy S2, which has an SD card slot in it, and a micro-SD card plugged into it (the list is shortened substantially): rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0 And it doesn’t require any special user permissions or device rooting to read it (though writing to it is another matter!). On most Linux systems, there’s a ‘file’ in the /proc/ directory called mounts, which contains a (sometimes very long) list of all the file systems mounted on the device. To make matters worse, some manufacturers have hijacked the name of the internal storage, and often called it something stupid like sdcard0. And hard, because those damned device manufacturers haven’t seen fit to settle on a standardised naming convention for a removable SD card which is plugged into the device. Easy, because we can make a single call to see what file systems we have mounted. This is both simultaneously easy to answer, but harder to solve. The first question we’ve got is: how do we determine whether we even have an removable SD card plugged into the device?
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That means that even if there’s not a direct Xamarin or Android call to do what you need to do, there may sometimes be a more Linux-y way of doing it. I hope that didn’t come as a shock to anyone. The operating system underneath the Dalvik VM is a Linux based one. For the purposes of this post, I am going to refer to this as the ‘removable’ storage, and it will refer to a removable SD card, which a person has physically plugged into the device.
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Just about all developers who build for Android understand that the ‘External’ storage does NOT refer to the removable SD card, even tho the file system sometimes refers to it as such. So most of those answers are essentially identical in implementation, and completely have the wrong end of the stick. And sometimes that maybe the questioner is being a moron for getting the two concepts confused, and this may be a duplicate of that question over there. And so most of the answers appear to get the concept of ‘External’ and ‘Removable’ mixed up, and then start preaching about how the ‘External Storage’ isn’t actually EXTERNAL storage, it’s just storage separate from the inaccessible, INTERNAL storage of the device. That’s why there’s so many duplicates of this type of question. Sadly, due to the gamification and ‘first post!’ mentality of some SO posts, a lot of developers go charging off, half-cocked, and answer the question they think is being asked, instead of the one actually being asked.
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This sample project shows you how to do just that. Most people seem to want to know how to read from (and write to) the SD card the’ve plugged into the SD card slot in their device. There’s been a lot of questions on StackOverflow (and other places) about how to access the ‘External Storage’ on an Android device.
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The code example is done in Xamarin/C#, but exactly the same principles apply in Java, so it should be extremely easy for an Android Java dev to understand exactly what’s going on, and apply the same methods. This quick post demonstrates how to how to access the external, REMOVABLE SD card plugged into your Android device.
