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Android Android Data Persistence File Storage Writing to Internal Storage

Posted by Elisha Chitate
Elisha Chitate
5,770 Points

./FileUtilities.java:28: error: cannot find symbol if (fileToWrite.exists() == false) { ^ symbol: variable .

public class FileUtilities {

public static boolean copyResult;

public static void saveAssetImage(Context context, String assetName) { File fileToWrite = new File(context.getFilesDir(), assetName); AssetManager assetManager = context.getAssets();

try {
  InputStream in = assetManager.open(assetName);
  FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(fileToWrite);
  copyResult = copyFile(in, out);
} catch(FileNotFoundException e) {
  e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
  e.printStackTrace();
}

}

private static boolean copyFile(InputStream in, FileOutputStream out) { // Copy magic intentionally omitted byte[] buffer = new byte[1024]; int read; if (fileToWrite.exists() == false) { copyResult = copyFile(in, out); }

} }

FileUtilities.java 
public class FileUtilities {

  public static boolean copyResult;

  public static void saveAssetImage(Context context, String assetName) {
    File fileToWrite = new File(context.getFilesDir(), assetName);
    AssetManager assetManager = context.getAssets();

    try {
      InputStream in = assetManager.open(assetName);
      FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(fileToWrite);
      copyResult = copyFile(in, out);
    } catch(FileNotFoundException e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }

  private static boolean copyFile(InputStream in, FileOutputStream out) {
    // Copy magic intentionally omitted
     byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
        int read;
    if (fileToWrite.exists() == false) { copyResult = copyFile(in, out); }

  }
}