Question

I am looking for an appropriate way to store and access pdf files in my Android app.

The problem is: I have 5 pdf-files which I would like to store in the project resources and load in the app.

I have tried to make a new directory in the project root /myApp/pdfs, and accessing it by:

File myFile = new File("/myApp/pdfs/,fileName);

I have tried some different variants of the path name: ./myApp/pdfs, myApp/pdfs, /pdfs, ./pdfs. However I get the same message stating that the file can’t be found.

How do I get the path to my apps directory? And is this the most appropriate approach for saving a small number of pdf-files?

Answer 1

If you are wanting to load the pdfs from the app (while the app is running), you probably want to store them in the res/raw folder.