How to get external REMOVABLE storage path (micro sdcard)

Question

I am building a media player application and I want to make a list from all.mp3 files on the device. To do that I need the EXTERNAL REMOVABLE storage path.

This path could be different in different devices.

Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath()

I've already tried above line of code but it returns the path of internal storage.

This has been discussed here . It didn't help.

Answer 1

You can achieve it through

public static String getExternalSdCardPath() {
    String path = null;

    File sdCardFile = null;
    List<String> sdCardPossiblePath = Arrays.asList("external_sd", "ext_sd", "external", "extSdCard");

    for (String sdPath : sdCardPossiblePath) {
            File file = new File("/mnt/", sdPath);

            if (file.isDirectory() && file.canWrite()) {
                    path = file.getAbsolutePath();

                    String timeStamp = new SimpleDateFormat("ddMMyyyy_HHmmss").format(new Date());
                    File testWritable = new File(path, "test_" + timeStamp);

                    if (testWritable.mkdirs()) {
                            testWritable.delete();
                    }
                    else {
                            path = null;
                    }
            }
    }

    if (path != null) {
            sdCardFile = new File(path);
    }
    else {
            sdCardFile = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath());
    }

    return sdCardFile.getAbsolutePath();

}