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Android : where's the Physical file location write to application?

Using filesystem write to app, on iphone version, I know where to look for the physical file written when running the simulator. But i can't locate the file on android version, anyone knows where to look for it? Thanks

var f = Titanium.Filesystem.getFile(Titanium.Filesystem.applicationDataDirectory,'data.xml');

f.write(this.responseData);

Answer 1

It's on the emulator. You have to use the adb command to interact with it.

adb -e shell

then you can cd to /data/data/YOUR.APP.ID/app_data to see your file.

Answer 2

Thanks, It works!

Just in case anyone's looking for this, you will need to twist a little to make it work.

This is under OSX.
The utility is under your android sdk folder/tools/

1)Open terminal, go to that folder. In my case is "/Developer/android-sdk-mac_86/tools"

2)PWD –> This list the current directory path for next step

3)PATH=$PATH:/Developer/android-sdk-mac_86/tools

Now you should be able to access it
adb -e shell

— go to the file folder then type "cat myfile.name", this print file on the terminal

cat data.xml

Answer 3

I found a more complete answer here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1964077/how-can-you-access-the-contents-of-android-emulator-databases

(the other answers are still correct)

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