Question

I’m trying to write an image file into the public gallery folder in a specific directory but I keep getting an error that I can’t open the file because its a directory.

What I have so far is the following

//set the file path
    String path = Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(Environment.DIRECTORY_PICTURES) + File.separator + directory;

    File outputFile = new File(path,"testing.png");


    outputFile.mkdirs();

    FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(outputFile);
    bmp.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, out);

Where directory is the application name. So all the photos saved by the application will go into that folder/directory, but I keep getting the error

/storage/sdcard0/Pictures/appname/testing.png: open failed: EISDIR (Is a directory)

Even if I don’t try to put it in a directory and cast the variable path as a File like

File path = Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(Environment.DIRECTORY_PICTURES);

I don’t get the error however the photo is still not showing up in the gallery.

***Answer
The problem was that when I ran this code originally it created a DIRECTORY named testing.png because I failed to create the directory before creating the file IN the directory. So the solution is to make the directory first then write into it with a separate file like so

String path = Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(Environment.DIRECTORY_PICTURES).toString() + File.separator + directory;

//directory is a static string variable defined in the class

            //make a file with the directory
    File outputDir = new File(path);

            //create dir if not there
    if (!outputDir.exists()) {
         outputDir.mkdir();

    }

            //make another file with the full path AND the image this time, resized is a static string
    File outputFile = new File(path+File.separator+resized);

    FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(outputFile);
    bmp.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, out);

Note you may need to go into your storage and manually delete the directory if you made the same mistake i did to begin with

Answer 1

You are trying to write into a directory instead of file.
try this

String path = Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(Environment.DIRECTORY_PICTURES) + File.separator + directory;   
File outputDir= new File(path);   
outputDir.mkdirs();   
File newFile = new File(path + File.separator + "test.png");
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(newFile);   
bmp.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, out);