Save an Image in app folder

Question

I'm new in Android development and I have an app that saves a 'jogador' (player) record with some attributes (name, birthday...) and a photo.

When the user picks the image from gallery, I populate an ImageView with the photo so that the user can see it before he saves the record. (It's working here).

My problem is that I want to save that photo in a folder created by me (Inside res/ folder). eg: res/myFolder.

I don't know how I will access that folder to put an image inside. Follow my code bellow:

Bitmap bmp = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(fotoPath); //---> It works
FileOutputStream fos;

try {

    // 'fotos_jogador' is my folder inside res folder.
    // I think that 'Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()' 
    // gives me access to sdcard, but i don't want this, I want to save in a local app folder. 

    File file = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + 
                         File.separator + "/fotos_jogador/" + ".png");
    fos = new FileOutputStream(file);

    //I want do store a low quality image, just for contact photo.
    if(fos != null){
        bmp.compress(CompressFormat.PNG, 20, fos);  
        fos.close();
    }
} 
catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
} 
catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

Then, guys, my doubts:

How can I give a custom name for my Image?
How can I Save the image in my folder 'fotos_jogador'?
How can I retrieve the Image after it's saved?

I appreciate the help. Thanks!

May be help this:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16506594/not-posting-image-file-in-android-using-multipart-httppost-method/16529053#16529053 — Horrorgoogle, May 17 '13 at 18:59
You can't because the /res folder is situated inside the apk file and can't be changed. — vortexwolf, May 17 '13 at 19:09

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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no you can not save anything in resource folder here is the link of duplicate post Is it possible to save image in assets folder from application you can save image in sd card or in internal memory.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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answered May 17 '13 at 18:56

Iftikar Urrhman Khan

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Right. What's the best way to do it? Can you help me? Thanks a lot! – André Farias May 17 '13 at 19:06

Save an Image in app folder

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