Read .txt field data from /storage/emulated/ path in android 11

Question

I want to read data from .txt file from /storage/emulated application-specific path. I have written data successfully in same file but not able to read it.

Code to write data in txt file.

val writer: FileOutputStream = openFileOutput(file.absolutePath, MODE_PRIVATE)
writer.write(str1.toByteArray())
writer.flush()
writer.close()

Trying to read data from same file.

val text = StringBuilder()
val br = BufferedReader(FileReader(file))
var line: String?
while (br.readLine().also { line = it } != null) {
 text.append(line)
 text.append('\n')
 }
 br.close()

line returning null value.

Answer 1

You should write to the location /storage/emulated directory. You avhave used openFileOutput() . It points to where getFilesDir() on Context returns. You can tell this because the documentation says:

Returns the absolute path to the directory on the filesystem where files created with openFileOutput(String, int) are stored.

To read from your location, use openFileInput(), the corresponding method on Context with the same filename that you had passsed to the openFileOutput().