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Monodroid Environment variables

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xamarin.android

In Android there are a collection of Environment paths available at Android.OS.Environment. However, when keeping cross platform capabilities in mind, I want to store pictures in a pictures folder and so thought to use System.Environment.GetFolderPath instead. However, my question is where these all point to in an Android environment. Can I get a useful pictures folder from the following?

string path = Environment.GetFolderPath (Environment.SpecialFolder.MyPictures);
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Dave W Avatar asked Jun 04 '13 12:06

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After stepping through some code, I've summarised the locations given by Xamarin Android for each of the different System.Environment variables below. I don't have an iOS project available, but if anyone could post the iOS equivalents I'd be grateful.

ApplicationData         "/data/data/ProjectName.ProjectName/files/.config"
CommonApplicationData   "/usr/share"
CommonProgramFiles      ""
Cookies                 ""
Desktop                 "/data/data/ProjectName.ProjectName/files/Desktop"
DesktopDirectory        "/data/data/ProjectName.ProjectName/files/Desktop"
Favorites               ""
History                 ""
InternetCache           ""
LocalApplicationData    "/data/data/ProjectName.ProjectName/files/.local/share"
MyComputer              ""
MyDocuments             "/data/data/ProjectName.ProjectName/files"
MyMusic                 "/data/data/ProjectName.ProjectName/files/Music"
MyPictures              "/data/data/ProjectName.ProjectName/files/Pictures"
MyVideos                "/data/data/ProjectName.ProjectName/files/Videos"
Personal                "/data/data/ProjectName.ProjectName/files"
ProgramFiles            ""
Programs                ""
Recent                  ""
SendTo                  ""
StartMenu               ""
Startup                 ""
System                  ""
Templates               "/data/data/ProjectName.ProjectName/files/Templates"
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Dave W Avatar answered Nov 07 '22 09:11

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