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How to hide a folder in sdcard in android

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I am developing an android application, It create some folders at starting of the application, which have images, video files and subfolder, i want to hide these folders and files at creation time. these folder should not be seen, when we access sdcard manually in device.

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Himanshu Avatar asked Nov 15 '11 10:11

Himanshu


1 Answers

If you want to hide folder in Android or any Linux based system just add . as prefix to folder or file name.

However if you mount your SD card on Windows machine then these folders will be visible, with the . in front of the folder name, as a normal folder.

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ingsaurabh Avatar answered Oct 15 '22 05:10

ingsaurabh



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