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Android

Posted by james white
james white
78,399 Points

Getting the Internal File Directory

Quiz Question (from Android Data Persistence, File Storage)

In the code below, call the Context method that gets the internal file directory

This is a MANDATORY question (you can't get it wrong and still move on): http://teamtreehouse.com/library/android-data-persistence/file-storage/getting-the-internal-file-directory

I knew the answer, but the it kept telling me this was wrong:

public File getInternalFilePath(Context context, String fileName) {
  File fileDir = context.getFilesDir;
  File fileToWrite = new File(fileDir, fileName);
  return file;
}

Can anyway guess why the above was wrong?

After an hour of forum searching I found this post:

https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/displaying-images-in-grid-empty-grid

which had this line (amongst much other code):

File fileDirectory = context.getFilesDir();

This is so no one wastes an hour for a pair of parenthesis..

James Chakanyuka
James Chakanyuka
4,916 Points

Thank You

2 Answers

J.D. Sandifer
J.D. Sandifer
18,813 Points

Thanks for listing this so other people can avoid the same problem!

James Chakanyuka
James Chakanyuka
4,916 Points
James Chakanyuka
James Chakanyuka
4,916 Points

Thank You