Save in Internal or External Storage?

Question

I am building an app which requires pictures from camera and gallery from a drop down. I want if the user selects camera option, the image gets saved in this file path -

Android/data/my_pkg_name(com.joey.imageapp)/files/user_avatars/file_name.png.

How do I create the file path and save the image there? Is internal or external storage the best place to store app-images? Thanks.

you can have a nice answer here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3551821/android-write-to-sd-card-folder — himel, Oct 16 '17 at 05:56

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 16 '17 at 04:09

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use the following code for setting the path and launching camera

Intent intent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
Uri imageuri = Uri.fromFile(new File("/your path/yourfilename.png"));
intent.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, imageuri);
startActivityForResult(intent, 1);

answered Oct 16 '17 at 04:09

Ramees

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Thanks bro, that might work. I have checked my phone's file explorer and the package name of my app is present. I want to save in that folder, will this work? – Anand Rajput Oct 16 '17 at 04:16
Ok, thanks. What about image from gallery, how can I save in same path? – Anand Rajput Oct 16 '17 at 04:45
Image from gallery is already saved in your phone.Why you want to save again? – Ramees Oct 16 '17 at 05:26
Bro, it's throwing a FileUriExposedException. How to solve? – Anand Rajput Oct 16 '17 at 07:31

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 16 '17 at 04:36

Is internal or external storage the best place to store app-images?

Internal Storage:

Files saved to the internal storage are private to your application and other applications cannot access them (nor can the user). When the user uninstalls your application, these files are removed.

External Storage:

Files saved to the external storage are world-readable and can be modified by the user when they enable USB mass storage to transfer files on a computer. Data Storage in Android

Save the image to internal directory

Save in Internal or External Storage?

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