NEED: I simply trying to get occupied cache size of each application which is installed in my phone.
MY APPROACH:
PackageManager packageManager = getPackageManager();
List<ApplicationInfo> packages = packageManager.getInstalledApplications(PackageManager.GET_META_DATA);
for (ApplicationInfo packageInfo : packages)
{
try
{
Context mContext = createPackageContext(packageInfo.packageName, CONTEXT_IGNORE_SECURITY);
File cacheDirectory = mContext.getCacheDir();
if(cacheDirectory==null)
{
cacheArrayList.add("0");
}
else
{
cacheArrayList.add(String.valueOf(cacheDirectory.length()/1024));
}
}
catch (NameNotFoundException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
RESULT: If directory is null it returning 0 (as condition). But if directory existing its returning 4 Kb always. I checked out cache of my apps by following the process:
Settings:->Apps:->ApplicationName
But I found its 0B there.
Why its happening can someone explain? and How do I get exact size of cache?
Calling length on a directory doesn't always return the correct size. You could try to iterate over the file list and add up all file sizes to get the total directory size.
Like this:
long size = 0;
File[] files = cacheDirectory.listFiles();
for (File f:files) {
size = size+f.length();
}
This has been more accurate to me:
private void initializeCache() {
long size = 0;
size += getDirSize(this.getCacheDir());
size += getDirSize(this.getExternalCacheDir());
((TextView) findViewById(R.id.yourTextView)).setText(readableFileSize(size));
}
public long getDirSize(File dir){
long size = 0;
for (File file : dir.listFiles()) {
if (file != null && file.isDirectory()) {
size += getDirSize(file);
} else if (file != null && file.isFile()) {
size += file.length();
}
}
return size;
}
public static String readableFileSize(long size) {
if (size <= 0) return "0 Bytes";
final String[] units = new String[]{"Bytes", "kB", "MB", "GB", "TB"};
int digitGroups = (int) (Math.log10(size) / Math.log10(1024));
return new DecimalFormat("#,##0.#").format(size / Math.pow(1024, digitGroups)) + " " + units[digitGroups];
}
Original post of the string to bytes formatting code
you will get cachesize from this function
public void clearCache() {
//clear memory cache
long size = 0;
cache.clear();
//clear SD cache
File[] files = cacheDir.listFiles();
for (File f:files) {
size = size+f.length();
// f.delete();
}
}