step one:
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>
step two:
Before you do any work with the external storage, you should always call getExternalStorageState() to check whether the media is available. The media might be mounted to a computer, missing, read-only, or in some other state.
An example they provide:
boolean mExternalStorageAvailable = false;
boolean mExternalStorageWriteable = false;
String state = Environment.getExternalStorageState();
if (Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED.equals(state)) {
// We can read and write the media
mExternalStorageAvailable = mExternalStorageWriteable = true;
} else if (Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED_READ_ONLY.equals(state)) {
// We can only read the media
mExternalStorageAvailable = true;
mExternalStorageWriteable = false;
} else {
// Something else is wrong. It may be one of many other states, but all we need
// to know is we can neither read nor write
mExternalStorageAvailable = mExternalStorageWriteable = false;
step three:
File folder = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + "/map");
boolean success = true;
if (!folder.exists()) {
success = folder.mkdir();
}
if (success) {
// Do something on success
} else {
// Do something else on failure
}