sd card folder is not being created in DDMS

Question

hi everyone , I am new to android.

I intend to make video player which can play video from file as well as web URL. But the problem is that when my emulator runs , a sd card folder should be created in "File Explorer" tab of DDMS perspective in eclipse , which is not happening . That's why I am unable to push any file in the sd card and hence video is not being played.

I have used following code :- check it out the link
http://davanum.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/android-%E2%80%93-videomusic-player-sample-take-2/

Please help me out.

Abhijeet

Answer 1

I didn't have a look at your code, but you can try to use the command line adb tool which you can find in the SDK. That's what I need to do (and works because I created a device with an sd card but it doesn't show up in the DDMS view.. To check if your device has a sd card, use a shell and go to the tools folder in your android installation, make sure you only have one emulator running. Type adb shell and check contents with the ls command, if there's a folder sdcard then you can use other commands to push and pull files. If there's no such folder try to create a new device, perhaps that was the problem. Leave the shell withCtrl + C, and type adb pull \sdcard\yourfileonthephone.txt yourfileonthecomputer.txt, files will be saved in the tools folder. Or use adb push to store files. But anyway perhaps there's a way to make it visible in DDMS, would be great :)

PS: Access via DDMS seems to work with devices running 2.1, but not 2.2...

Answer 2

I think your slashes are backwards. \sdcard\yourfileonthephone.txt should be /sdcard/yourfileonthephone.txt. Otherwise, you a "file system is read-only" error.