I’m not able to find any extension for FilePicker in MIT list of extensions, I can see it for AppyBuilder and other platforms… Can you please suggest if we have any for MIT app inventor? Thanks for your support…
I tried to use this Thunkable plaform extension - aix file, however it is not giving me the desired results… Not sure the Thunkable or appyBuilder extensions will work for MIT app inventor… Please confirm… Thanks
I guess this is what you are mentioning I think… There is a dependncy that the users of this app to install a file manager… Is it? Please give me a clarity… Thanks
note: generally you can use all extensions for App Invnetor or one of its distributions, there are only a few exceptions for extensions which have been made using the Kodular IDE
I have bought File Picker Plus Extension by Andres Daniel I received the extension aix file from him, I have implemented into my code block, PickFolder extension is not working as desired… 1. I give start folder as “/”, however the PickFolder function is not picking the folder… 2. When I choose the folder on file picker, FolderPicked event is never called… Am I missing something? Please see the code block and advice me. I contacted Andres Daniel, he might be travelling, didn’t respond so for… Thanks for your help folks…
@Andres_Cotes Now somehow figured that for PickFolder function, when the user selects a file or folder then FilePicked event is fired, both cases only the folder is sent in path,without the file name… One problem is when user comes into a folder, if he just press OK button without selecting any file, it only selects folder path upto the parent only, it excludes the selected folder, however if a file is selected then it has complete path…
I have an issue when I save the working folder for my app, Through FilePicker I got the path of my working folder “/storage/emulated/0/HealeeDB/” but when I use this to combine to refer a file, “/storage/emulated/0/HealeeDB/M_Clinic.csv”, if try to write to the file, The File component takes reprocesses the path as “/storage/emulated/0/storage/emulated/0/HealeeDB/M_Clinic.csv” and giving following error…
So basically I can only be able to refer the file as “/HealeeDB/M_Clinic.csv”, The FilePicker gives absolute path, however File component parses the path and modifies… Any solution for this problem please… Thanks
@Taifun With FilePicker path “/storage/emulated/0/HealeeDB/” , your TaiFunFile.copy method is working fine… Only the MIT’s File component has the path issue… How are you resolving the path? The File component is handling it differently… Thanks
Thanks Anke… My android phone has internal storage and an additional SD card… The FilePicker shows both of them and it allows to pickup files or folders from…
If you see emulated is the internal storage, and “D4F4-0EBA” is the SD card root folder… All file access of MIT App Inventor is hard coded to the absolute path of “/storage/emulated/0/”, that means we will have to manage only with Internal storage? This limitation is not a problem for my application, however I just wanted to know the technical possibility… Thanks again
@Anke, in both above two solutions, writing operations of the files are allowed only on internal storage, if required just copying or reading operations are only done on SD Card… Thanks…