Getting path of a pdf in android

Question

Friends I am trying to get path of the pdf's for my app. Suppose there are n number of pdf's in your android phone(may be in root dir or sdcard) then how could you get there path programmatically ? Could some one please suggest me some hints ?

Thanks in Advance

Karan

Answer 1

File images = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
imagelist = images.listFiles(new FilenameFilter()
{
public boolean accept(File dir, String name)
{
return ((name.endsWith(".pdf")));
}
});
pdflist = new String[imagelist.length];
for(int i = 0;i<imagelist.length;i++)
{
pdflist[i] = imagelist[i].getName();
}

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Answer 2

For SD Card check

    if (android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals(
            android.os.Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED)) {
         File f = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory());

         File[] files = f.listFiles();
         File file;
         for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
                file = files[i];
         }
    }

    //For Internal Memory

    else {
            /* save the folder in internal memory of phone */

        File f = new File("/data/data/com.your.package/");
        File[] files = f.listFiles();
    }

Answer 3

I was able to get them by recursively searching the items ....

Recursively list files in Java