title: Delphi XE5 Android - Storage path problems
body: <p>I started doing an app for android in Delphi XE5, and encountered some troubles.</p>
  
  <p>I really don't understand about getting paths.
  After I set the permissions to Write and Read External storage, I tried to get paths so I can see where I'm saving files I create, and this is what I get:</p>
  
  <p>for System.IOUtils.TPath. -></p>
  
  <pre><code>GetDocumentsPath;       -  /data/data/com.myapp.app1/files
  GetDownloadsPath;       -  /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.myapp.app1/files/Download
  GetHomePath;            -  /data/data/com.myapp.app1/files
  GetSharedDocumentsPath; -  /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.myapp.app1/files
  GetLibraryPath;         -  /data/data/com.myapp.app1/files
  GetPublicPath;          -  /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.myapp.app1/files
  GetPicturesPath;        -  /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.myapp.app1/files/Pictures
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>As far as I understood from other topics, the GetDocumentsPath should be default sdcard path, Downloads should be sdcard/Downloads, but instead it's using /Android/data/application's folder/files/ here creats folders which already exists on the sdcard itself.</p>
  
  <p>/emulated/0/ is actually the same as /sdcard/   on my phone, if that's confusing for anyone (just in case....).</p>
  
  <p>It has several shortcuts, as far as I understand, storage/emulated/0/, storage/sdcard0/, also from root's folder is directly access to sdcard/  (but I guess the apps without root access has only default access to storage/ folder, hence the storage/sdcard0 and emulated/0 folders exists; don't know why are duplicated shortcuts to the same folder, though....)</p>
  
  <p>[[ There's also storage/emulated/legacy/, which also seems to point to the same folder, but I never touch it, since I used to have some troubles with file duplicates and strange Music library behaviour, right before I rooted and formatted it. Never figured what really happened, but don't even care. Fact is, that the emulated folder seems to be evil and unexplained ;) ]]</p>
  
  <p>Also, are these path troubles related to the fact, that the phone has no mount option, but only MTP, or that it's android 4.3, or....? </p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>
  
  <p>// Update: Splitted questions about this and screen resolutions as Sir Rufo suggested.</p>
  
  <p>UPDATE:
  Looks like hardcoding '/sdcard/filename.extension' as path string does the job, however I'm not sure how wise it is to hardcore the location in the app... :// </p>