Android Question Find my app's files on a device?

[Homerclese]

I have a file manager app on my device and I'd like to check my app's local files on the device. Is that possible? I can't see my package code in the root>sdcard>Android>data folder. I can see anywheresoftware.b4a.b4abridge though, and I guess that's because I'm only building a debug app.

 

[mangojack]

I have a file manager app on my device and I'd like to check my app's local files on the device. Is that possible? I can't see my package code in the root>sdcard>Android>data folder. I can see anywheresoftware.b4a.b4abridge though, and I guess that's because I'm only building a debug app.

Install (in release mode ) a small test app to confirm your theory .

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[Homerclese]

Even when I install a release mode version of my app, I can't see my app's package code in the root>sdcard>Android>data folder.

 

[mangojack]

Have not tested .. but this should return path / folder of your installed app.

https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/how-to-get-an-installed-app-apks-path.44348/#post-270215

Ensure to include / check Refection lib

 

[Homerclese]

Have not tested .. but this should return path / folder of your installed app.

https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/how-to-get-an-installed-app-apks-path.44348/#post-270215

Thanks and I'm sorry but I should have been clearer with my question. I can find my app's .APK file on the device in debug mode (but not under my app's package code in release mode) but I want to know whether I can browse the files that I'm saving into File.DirInternalCache on the device using a file system browser?

 

[Erel]

Applications cannot access the internal folders of other applications. This includes all file explorers. Only your app can access those files.

When you use B4A-Bridge it stores the APK in the secondary storage before the OS installs it.

 

[Homerclese]

Bummer. For some reason I had the impression that Android wasn't sandboxed like iOS. It's good that it is, of course.

 

[Erel]

There is a difference, in iOS there is no shared storage place and in Android there is one.