How to read file names from Internal storage in Android

Question

I want to read the file names from the default internal storage folder of my app but even if there are some files I get a List of size 0 I use the following to read the file names

File dirFiles = Settings.this.getFilesDir();
    File list[] = dirFiles.listFiles();
    for( int i=0; i< list.length; i++)
    {
        myList.add( list[i].getName() );
    }

What I am doing wrong here? is the path I get correct? or it needs to have a "/" at the end of it?

/data/data/com.compfrind.contacts/files

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

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Try this way

private File path = new File("/storage/" + "");


    File list[] = path.listFiles();
        for( int i=0; i< list.length; i++)
        {
            myList.add( list[i].getName() );
        }

Also please have a look at this answer

edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

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answered May 04 '16 at 08:51

varunkr

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It works but I am not getting the apps files but storage files – Miaoulis Nikos May 04 '16 at 08:55
what files do you want to get? Any specific app ? – varunkr May 04 '16 at 08:56
I want to get the files from the default file folder of the app – Miaoulis Nikos May 04 '16 at 08:58
The link suggests to use as in my case the Context.openFileOutput() but I want to get the filenames of all files not the data of a file stored in internal storage – Miaoulis Nikos May 04 '16 at 09:14
@MiaoulisNikos You can try using this File path = new File("/storage/emulated/0/.data/.data/com.compfrind.contacts/files" + ""); and then call path.getFiles() , I am not sure 100% but I think it should work !! – varunkr May 04 '16 at 09:25
@MiaoulisNikos did you try the suggestion ? – varunkr May 04 '16 at 09:46
I had already done this and works with the full path instead of /storage/ but is it best practice? – Miaoulis Nikos May 04 '16 at 10:06
The .getName() did it for me. Thanks. – Rohit Kumar Aug 31 '19 at 09:46

How to read file names from Internal storage in Android

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