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I have been searching around and can not seem to find a way to download a media file from my website and save it to my app's raw resource folder. What is the best way to do this? Any help is greatly appreciated.

TheAnonymous010
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  • You can't write to the `raw` resource folder. It can only be read. The main purpose of `raw` is to ship the resource with the app, which can then be accessed by the app without modifying. You must save the media file to **Internal** or **External** storage of the device. – Monish Kamble Dec 26 '16 at 05:21
  • What is the easiest way to download and access it from the Internal Storage? – TheAnonymous010 Dec 26 '16 at 05:25
  • There are a lot of online examples for this. See one here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5729839/android-mp3-file-download?noredirect=1&lq=1 – yakobom Dec 26 '16 at 05:28
  • Download the file using [HttpURLConnection](https://developer.android.com/reference/java/net/HttpURLConnection.html) or any other third party library and save it on Internal or External storage. What kind of files you are downloading? – Monish Kamble Dec 26 '16 at 05:29
  • Music files. (mp3) – TheAnonymous010 Dec 26 '16 at 05:30
  • @yakobom Thanks for the link. I'm going to try it out. – TheAnonymous010 Dec 26 '16 at 05:30
  • maybe this helps..! http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5729839/android-mp3-file-download?noredirect=1&lq=1 – EasyE Dec 26 '16 at 11:42

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You can't access resource folder once your app is installed. So you can't access raw folder for WRITE after installation. So better to use internal storage to store this file.

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You cannot do that, you can only read from the 'raw' and 'assets' folders. Either use internal storage, or if relevant - APK Expansion Files.

yakobom
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