Creating app's custom folder in internal storage root path without any permissions about simplestorage HOT 3 CLOSED

I want access to the whole root

I understand that you want to create a folder without prompt any dialogs to the user, i.e. /storage/emulated/0/YourAppName, but you can't do that since API 30 without full disk access (android.permission.MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE).

Even WhatsApp is no longer able to create custom directory like /storage/emulated/0/WhatsApp since Android 12 (reference: #107 (comment)). Thus requesting root access is not a future-proof solution. The best solution is by writing your audio files inside your app's private directory, for example:

• context.getExternalMediaDirs() will return /storage/emulated/0/Android/media/<app-package> (current WhatsApp solution)
• context.getExternalFilesDir(Environment.DIRECTORY_RECORDINGS) will return /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/<app-package>/files/Recordings

Those paths do not require any storage permissions.

it crashes and it reverts back to the original Login Activity

You're trying to create an enum from string /storage/emulated/0, which is not available in the enum constants. Use available constants from this file: PublicDirectory.kt, for example PublicDirectory.MUSIC, PublicDirectory.DOWNLOADS, etc.

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Can you give me an example? How should I go about implementing it?

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Here's the example:

val input = URL("https://google.com/audio.mp3").openStream()
val folder = externalMediaDirs.first()
val file = File(folder, "recitation.mp3")
val output = file.outputStream()
// will be located in /storage/emulated/0/Android/media/<app-package>/recitation.mp3
output.write(input.read())

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