Extension to download file(s) to ASD (app-specific directory) without WRITE permission

[Yash_Agarwal]

Okay, i will send you now via PM
yes i tried to find out the link of the extension to share here with you, but when i click on info of that extension it show the broken link.

[Yash_Agarwal]

Please check your messages for the aia file

[tmohank (mohan)]

Nice one…

But, I am trying to download the latest file and there is no way to overwrite the file already downloaded. it just created another file as filename-1.jpg.
Can I use the file component to delete. Will the app need WRITE Permission for this?

Thanks in afvance

Mohan

[Kevinkun]

ASD no need write permission

[tmohank (mohan)]

Somehow, the file component delete did not work

using in companion. Do I have to change some here for companion?

Mohan

[bodymindpower (Anke)]

@tmohank

file component

needs / uses a relative path, see also here:

How to check if an image exists in device storage by path

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Some basics on Android storage system

From an Android point of view there are an → Internal Storage and an → External Storage. 1. Internal Storage The Internal Storage can only be accessed with a rooted device. 1.1 The app package is saved in /data/data/<packageName>/ 1.2. The Private directory is /data/user/0/<packageName>/files/ This private directory can be used with the File component to save / read text (setting the path without a slash). It can only be accessed by your app and is automatically removed when the app is un…

[bodymindpower (Anke)]

@tmohank

But, I am trying to download the latest file and there is no way to overwrite the file already downloaded. it just created another file as filename-1.jpg.

Download the file only if it doesn’t exist.

[tmohank (mohan)]

I am using this to download the image to use in share component.
Everytime the image could be different depending on what the user selects to share. Hence, I have to overwrite the image.

[bodymindpower (Anke)]

@tmohank

I am using this to download the image to use in share component.
Everytime the image could be different depending on what the user selects to share.

What’s the problem if this file (image) already exists? Or does this image exist with the same file name and different content? If so, just delete this file before starting the download.

[mjssakuruppampady]

For the url parameter in the DownloadtoASD block, can’t we use a variable instead of writing the url in a text block. I get the following error by using a global variable as url to download a file (the variable contains the url in text form). I tried a url with text form and it works fine. Correct me if my method is wrong or is there an alternative to use variable?
This works fine:

This gives the below mentioined error:

[Taifun]

@mjssakuruppampady

For the url parameter in the DownloadtoASD block, can’t we use a variable instead of writing the url in a text block

yes of course

@mjssakuruppampady

I get the following error by using a global variable as url to download a file (the variable contains the url in text form)

make sure, the value of that global variable is a correct url… according to the eror message it looks like the value of that variable was an empty string…

what about using Do it to debug your blocks?
see also tip 4 here App Inventor: How to Learn | Pura Vida Apps
see also Live Development, Testing, and Debugging Tools

Taifun

[mjssakuruppampady]

Thank you for pointing it out. It did solve my problem.

[mr_Yash]

where the call block

[Taifun]

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[Techno_Ashish1 (Techno Ashish)]

From your extension - Hide notification not working and I want to hide this. And also you providing version 2 instead of version 3 in the link which is for version 3

Please check it again

[bodymindpower (Anke)]

@Techno_Ashish1

Hide notification not working

It’s working fine.

@Techno_Ashish1

And also you providing version 2 instead of version 3 in the link which is for version 3

It’s the third version of the extension, but the second version of the
notifHidden variant.

[Techno_Ashish1 (Techno Ashish)]

@bodymindpower

fine

It’s not working in Kodular Fenix… I checked this and then told you here. Please check yourself.

[bodymindpower (Anke)]

@Techno_Ashish1

It’s not working in Kodular Fenix

It works fine with Kodular Fenix.

@Techno_Ashish1

I checked this

I checked it on Android 11 and 9 as well.

[Techno_Ashish1 (Techno Ashish)]

Ok, now it’s working…

And one more thing

I want to show a downloading progress bar in percentage value But how can I do this using ASD.

[bodymindpower (Anke)]

@Techno_Ashish1

Ok, now it’s working…

Then let us know why it didn’t work before and why I had to answer multiple times unnecessarily.