[Android] the files command

[J. Landman Gay]

On 4/24/13 12:54 AM, Nicolas Cueto wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I want to create an Android stack that will allow renaming the filenames of
> images in a directory, which directory is not necessarily part of
> (sandboxed with?) my Android stack itself, and which directory may or may
> not be the Android default directory for images (if such a directory
> exists?).
>
> For a similar Windows desktop stack I made in the past, what my script did
> was to first set "defaultFolder" to the target directory and then get the
> "files".
>
> Is there a similarly easy way in Android of accessing picture files and
> then renaming them? Can't find what I need in the LC dictionary.

On mobile, apps are limited to the folders in their own sandbox. There 
are a few exceptions, for example, they can read files from the gallery, 
but I don't think you can change them, you can only re-save them as new 
files.

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