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Android: Copy raw resources to external storage
package photo.mission;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import android.content.Context;
import android.os.Environment;
import android.util.Log;
/**
* @author fredrik.persson
*/
public class Setup extends Thread {
public Setup(Context context){
m_context = context;
m_sdcard = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
}
public void run(){
File cfgdir = new File(m_sdcard+m_configdir);
if(!cfgdir.exists()){
cfgdir.mkdirs();
}
copyResources(R.raw.foo);
copyResources(R.raw.bar);
copyResources(R.raw.baz);
}
public void copyResources(int resId){
Log.i("Test", "Setup::copyResources");
InputStream in = m_context.getResources().openRawResource(resId);
String filename = m_context.getResources().getResourceEntryName(resId);
File f = new File(filename);
if(!f.exists()){
try {
OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(new File(m_sdcard+m_configdir, filename));
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
int len;
while((len = in.read(buffer, 0, buffer.length)) != -1){
out.write(buffer, 0, len);
}
in.close();
out.close();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
Log.i("Test", "Setup::copyResources - "+e.getMessage());
} catch (IOException e) {
Log.i("Test", "Setup::copyResources - "+e.getMessage());
}
}
}
Context m_context;
File m_sdcard;
String m_configdir = "/config";
}
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sne007 commented Dec 23, 2018

Thanks mate. This helped me a lot.

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