Simple way for get dirs and files from user android filesystem

[cristoferfb]

Hi, I want to access to all the user android filesystem (commonly /storage/emulated/0) I notice a function getDirectoryItems() but this not work:

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love.filesystem.getDirectoryItems("/storage/emulated/0/") 

(I have enable storage permissions)

[zorg]

Löve can't access anything other than the save directory and where main.lua is, whether the latter is a folder or inside a .love file (zip archive), and potentially the folder where the .love file is, if you can mount it (works on windows at least, idk about other OS-es)

There have been attempts at libraries that would allow arbitrary locations and absolute paths; you can try this, but not sure if it'll work on android or not: https://github.com/megagrump/nativefs

[cristoferfb]

Löve can't access anything other than the save directory and where main.lua is, whether the latter is a folder or inside a .love file (zip archive), and potentially the folder where the .love file is, if you can mount it (works on windows at least, idk about other OS-es)

There have been attempts at libraries that would allow arbitrary locations and absolute paths; you can try this, but not sure if it'll work on android or not: https://github.com/megagrump/nativefs

I am actually using the unix terminal of the android device.

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local dir = io.popen ("ls "..someDir)
io.input(dir)

I dont know if this is portable to any other android device I think yes. I will take a look to how works that library u mentioned.

[zorg]

lua io might fail with specific characters in paths & filenames; what i linked shouldn"t.

[AuahDark]

I am actually using the unix terminal of the android device.

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local dir = io.popen ("ls "..someDir)
io.input(dir)

I dont know if this is portable to any other android device I think yes. I will take a look to how works that library u mentioned.

That works, but you have to request external storage permission. If the user denies it, then there's nothing you can do.

lua io might fail with specific characters in paths & filenames; what i linked shouldn"t.

That only applies to Windows. io.open in Android (Linux) is UTF-8, so there's no problem with it.