Help how to read csv

[Diedc22 (Diego)]

how to read a csv in the download directory of the cell phone

[pkalyan (Pavan kalyan)]

Use file component read file block

[Technical_Zone (Sunil Kumar)]

Hope this helps

• Technical_zone

[Diedc22 (Diego)]

error 2101 could not be found

[Still-learning (GSR)]

Android version?

Try this method.

Get the path of → ASD (app-specific dir) & → private data dir (internal storage)

Here is a small extension to get the ASD (path of app specific directory) which is becoming more and more important on Android 10+ and the private data dir (→ internal storage): de.bodymindpower.GetASD.aix (6.3 KB) [grafik] The reason why I now added the privateDir will soon become clear when I show you how to store any kind of files in → internal storage (and not just text files like the File component does). I think this is a milestone (at least for me): I am very happy that this is (no…

[bodymindpower (Anke)]

@Diedc22

how to read a csv in the download directory

On Android 11+ devices, non-media files (outside the ASD) can only be read if they were

1. created by the app itself
2. saved in one of the Shared folders
3. read by the EFile extension.

Otherwise, SAF is required.

See also here:

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…

[Diedc22 (Diego)]

I show you my blocks it works for me in android 9 and below and it did not work for me on android 10 and 11 as I would have to do it

[Diedc22 (Diego)]

[Taifun]

@Diedc22

it did not work for me on android 10 and 11 as I would have to do it

starting from SDK30 you can’t move files to arbitrary directories anymore… see also the overview by @bodymindpower

Some basics on Android storage system

I have added another detail to my overview (top right, see pink box) and thus completed the overview. (I hope. ) [grafik]

what about storing the file in the ASD?

Taifun
PS: I moved your new thread into your already existing thread…