Android M write to SD Card – Permission Denied

As suggested by @CommonsWare here we have to use the new Storage Access Framework provided by android and will have to take permission from user to write SD card file as you said this is already written in the File Manager Application ES File Explorer.

Here is the code for Letting the user choose the “SD card” :

startActivityForResult(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT_TREE), requestCode);

which will look somewhat like this :

And get the Document path in pickedDirand pass further in your copyFile block
and use this path for writing the file :

public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent resultData) {
    if (resultCode != RESULT_OK)
        return;
    else {
        Uri treeUri = resultData.getData();
        DocumentFile pickedDir = DocumentFile.fromTreeUri(this, treeUri);
        grantUriPermission(getPackageName(), treeUri, Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION | Intent.FLAG_GRANT_WRITE_URI_PERMISSION);
        getContentResolver().takePersistableUriPermission(treeUri, Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION | Intent.FLAG_GRANT_WRITE_URI_PERMISSION);
        copyFile(sdCard.toString(), "/File.txt", path + "/new", pickedDir);
    }
}


public void copyFile(String inputPath, String inputFile, String outputPath, DocumentFile pickedDir) {

    InputStream in = null;
    OutputStream out = null;
    try {

        //create output directory if it doesn't exist
        File dir = new File(outputPath);
        if (!dir.exists()) {
            dir.mkdirs();
        }

        in = new FileInputStream(inputPath + inputFile);
        //out = new FileOutputStream(outputPath + inputFile);

        DocumentFile file = pickedDir.createFile("//MIME type", outputPath);
        out = getContentResolver().openOutputStream(file.getUri());

        byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
        int read;
        while ((read = in.read(buffer)) != -1) {
            out.write(buffer, 0, read);
        }
        in.close();


        // write the output file (You have now copied the file)
        out.flush();
        out.close();
    } catch (FileNotFoundException fnfe1) {
    /* I get the error here */
        Log.e("tag", fnfe1.getMessage());
    } catch (Exception e) {
        Log.e("tag", e.getMessage());
    }
}