How to move a file from my app's internal storage to the phone's download directory in Android Q (10)?

Question

It seems that getExternalStoragePublicDirectory() is now deprecated, so I need an alternative.

Say I have file the foo.png in my app's internal storage. I can easily access this file with

val foo = File(context.filesDir, "foo.png")

My problem is that I want to move this file to the user's Downloads directory, so that they can see it on their phone.

This answer uses DownloadManager. Unfortunately this is an image I generate myself, not download from somewhere.

For an Android 20 device: Add android:requestLegacyExternalStorage="true" to application tag in manifest file and you can copy your file to that external storage location in the old way. After that delete original. — blackapps, Sep 02 '20 at 07:30
Thank you, but I'm aware of that. It seems that is only a temporary solution. I'm looking for the long term solution. — cris, Sep 02 '20 at 15:44
This was actually answered by user Frank in [here](https://stackoverflow.com/a/57940502/11848486). — cris, Sep 03 '20 at 00:33

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 02 '20 at 15:50

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You have two options.

Use Storage Acces Framework to let the user choose the Download directory .

Use MediaStore to insert file to Download directory.

answered Sep 02 '20 at 15:50

blackapps

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