how to read/write data on Android ?

[Ralph DiMola]

You need to root to see these files. The engine folder is a virtual folder  
that looks into the .apk that gets loaded on the device. That is why you  
cant write to it. An .apk is in zip format. If you want to look at a .apk...  
create a standalone app. Find the apk and rename it to .zip. when you look  
at it, the assets folder is where the engine folder points to on the device.  
So if you want to see exactly what is in the engine folder just look in the  
assets folder in the zip file. That always helps. Now if you are rooted you  
can look into the elusive data folder. the apk is located at data/app. The  
documents folder is located at data/data/com.reverse.dns/files where  
com.reverse.dns is what you entered in the standalone application settings.  
Now for the good news.....When you build for iOS the engine and documents  
folders work exactly the same to the LC programer. I hope this helps....

Ralph DiMola
MIS Director 
Evergreen Information Services
rdimola at evergreeninfo.net

-----Original message-----
From: "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Mon, Mar 19, 2012 04:15:46 GMT+00:00
Subject: Re: how to read/write data on Android?

On 3/18/12 10:47 PM, Nicolas Cueto wrote:

> P.S. Since my app's files don't seem to get listed in the Android file
> explorer, can I assume that'd only work with unrooted Android devices?

I don't have a rooted device either so I can't look in the /data/ directory.  
Someone else may know what LiveCode puts in there. I'd like to know more  
about how it works.

In any case, the files are always written to the same place, but an unrooted  
device does not have permissions to open the /data/ folder, and a file  
utility won't be able to see in there either. If you had root, you could  
probably find the files.

-- Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com

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