I’m working on a Cordova app that downloads large media files. Because the internal storage on some Android devices is limited, I want to give the user the option to save downloaded files on their external SD card.
Cordova-android specifies a way to be able to do this with the cordova-plugin-file using the cordova.file.externalRootDirectory hook, but I have not found it to work in my tests. Instead the device creates a pseudo SD card within internal memory and saves there.
How can I access the actual external SD card within Cordova? Has anyone done this successfully?
Is it possible to display a “File Manager” type dialog so that the user can navigate to their external SD card, and tap a button that will then give the app the local path to that SD card directory, so I can store the path and use it for future downloads?
Thanks for any insights.
