Getting de path from android emulator in xamarin

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Hello,
I am new in Xamarin,
I am using VS studio 2022, my APP take a picture in the emulator and then i need to copy the image, my problem is: Where does the image is storage in the EMULATOR? It will be different in production?
This is my C# code: string origenPath = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal); to get the path where is the image, i do not know if it correct.

Thanks.

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I had read tutorial, web site, etc

Posted 30-Mar-23 7:29am

Luis M. Rojas

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0x01AA 30-Mar-23 14:31pm

Guess from where I got that:
When you take a picture in the emulator, it's stored in the emulator's file system. The path to the file will be different than in production, where the file will be stored on the device's file system.

Regarding your code, Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal is the correct way to retrieve the path to the app's private directory in the emulator. The private directory is where your app can store files that are specific to your app and won't be accessible by other apps or the user.

To find the exact location where your image is being saved, you can use the Android Device Monitor tool that comes with Android Studio.

Here are the steps to find the file location:

Start the emulator and make sure your app is running on it.
Open the Android Device Monitor by selecting it from the Tools menu in Android Studio.
Select your running emulator from the Devices tab.
Navigate to the File Explorer tab.
From there, you should be able to browse the emulator's file system and find your app's private directory, where your image should be saved.
Alternatively, you can use the adb command-line tool to pull the file from the emulator to your local machine. The command would look something like this:

adb pull /data/data/your.package.name/files/image.jpg

Replace your.package.name with your app's package name and image.jpg with the name of your image file.

[no name] 30-Mar-23 22:08pm

Prior art: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13095718/where-are-android-emulator-images-stored

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