Android shared storage accessibility via PC

Question

Testing Your Expansion Files

says: ... For example, if your package name is com.example.android, you need to create the directory Android/obb/com.example.android/ on the shared storage space. (Plug in your test device to your computer to mount the shared storage and manually create this directory.)

I found out(by Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()) that external storage is mounted as /mnt/sdcard in my device. So.. How can I access this storage via Windows to copy about 200Mb files? BTW the device does not have a micro-SD plugged in.

Answer 1

You can use adb push to push files to your device. More documentation here: http://developer.android.com/tools/help/adb.html

Answer 2

There’s also the Android File Transfer app you can use to copy files from your Mac or PC.

And as Andrew pointed out, the path reported by Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() doesn’t necessarily match what you can see in the Android File Transfer app’s file system. In my case, the “Android” folder was also present in the root at /Android – and so I could ignore every path element before the “/Android/obb” part reported by Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().

So, to copy extension files into the appropriate directory on the device, I had to you copy them to /Android/obb/com.example.android/ on the device.