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Francis L.4
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10 years ago

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Hi, I've been left to maintain an Android application that on a couple of devices has stopped working, and I've traced it down to something which I believe is quite strange.  I've typed in the code...
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Francis L.4's avatar
Francis L.4
Explorer | Level 4
10 years ago

Looking at that after posting it, could it be SETTINGS_LOCATION being hardwired and there being a permissions type problem where the FileLoader class can't save data there?  That would kind of make sense for the mkdir failing.

If so, is there any way of finding out where I can write without any issues?  Would Environment.getDataDirectory() cover it?

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