Android Tutorial => Save Database on SD Card (Backup DB on SD)

Example

    public static Boolean ExportDB(String DATABASE_NAME , String packageName , String folderName){
    //DATABASE_NAME including ".db" at the end like "mayApp.db"
    String DBName = DATABASE_NAME.substring(0, DATABASE_NAME.length() - 3);
    File data = Environment.getDataDirectory();
    FileChannel source=null;
    FileChannel destination=null;
    String currentDBPath = "/data/"+ packageName +"/databases/"+DATABASE_NAME; // getting app db path

    File sd = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(); // getting phone SD card path
    String backupPath = sd.getAbsolutePath() + folderName; // if you want to set backup in specific folder name
        /* be careful , foldername must initial like this : "/myFolder" . dont forget "/" at begin of folder name
            you could define foldername like this : "/myOutterFolder/MyInnerFolder" and so on ...
        */
    File dir = new File(backupPath);
    if(!dir.exists()) // if there was no folder at this path , it create it .
    {
        dir.mkdirs();
    }

    DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd_HH-mm-ss");
    Date date = new Date();
        /* use date including file name for arrange them and preventing to make file with the same*/
    File currentDB = new File(data, currentDBPath);
    File backupDB = new File(backupPath, DBName +"("+ dateFormat.format(date)+").db");
    try {
        if (currentDB.exists() && !backupDB.exists()) {
            source = new FileInputStream(currentDB).getChannel();
            destination = new FileOutputStream(backupDB).getChannel();
            destination.transferFrom(source, 0, source.size());
            source.close();
            destination.close();
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    } catch(IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        return false;
    }
}

call this method this way :

ExportDB("myDB.db","com.example.exam","/myFolder");

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