how to obtain available free space on sdcard from android application?

Question

I am developing an android application where i need to determine the free space available on the sdcard. Can anyone give me some suggestion regarding this please.

thanks kaisar

Answer 1

Something like this should work:

File sdcard = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
StatFs stat = new StatFs(sdcard.getAbsolutePath());
long available = stat.getAvailableBlocks() * (long) stat.getBlockSize();