Question

I wish to create a file on my device somewhere (I don’t mind where or what the file contains, my only concern is the name of the file), then have my app look for the existence of that file. The idea is to have a mechanism to secretly unlock some features of my app to anyone I tell about the file.

My only problem is that I have never written any code to read/write files outside of my own app’s space before, so I’m not sure how to do it. Can someone give me some pointers.

Answer 1

You can use File.exists() method to determine whether the file exists or not.

  File testfile = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()
                + File.separator ,
                "myfile");
        if (testfile.exists()) {
            //file exists. enable your features
        }