File I/o Not Working

I am trying to test a simple file i/o program on android where i type in some text in EditText and when i click the Save Button, it writes the content in a file. and when i click

Solution 1:

Using new File("text1.txt") as output does not work on Android. The current working directoy is always / which is not writable for your app. Use

Filef=newFile(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(), "text1.txt");

getExternalStorageDirectory() is the internal storage for newer phones.

Your app Context has several paths that you can use if you want to store data in your app-private folder. Paths from Environment are in public places where you can simply read the data with a filemanager

And don't forget to add

<uses-permissionandroid:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

in case you want to write to those public paths