Android: Creating file using createNewFile() method

Question

As described in android documentation, to create a new file which will be situated in the application's directory there is the method in Context class: openFileOutput().

But where will be the file situated if I use simple createNewFile() method from File class.?

Answer 1

CreateNewFile() is used like this:

File file = new File("data/data/your package name/test.txt");
if (!file.exists()) {
        try {
            file.createNewFile();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
}

So you will tell the file where it should be created. Remember that you can only create new files on your package. That is "data/data/your package name/".