Question

I am using as3 air and testing on an android.

I need to able to load, thru a browse feature, the sd card
OR
I need to point directly to that file folder thru a path.

I have successfully downloaded a zip file from a server. I can unzip it while testing on
my desktop because I can browse to the correct path on desktop but not on phone. But I don’t need the browse feature anyway, right now. I just need to be able to point to the applicationStorgeDirectory and the file in there. 🙂

I need the file var 🙂

var reader:ZipFileReader = new ZipFileReader();
    reader.open(file); /// Help :)

UPDATE Sept 4th 2012 5pm

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I tried this code:

var file:File = File.applicationStorageDirectory.resolvePath("myFile.zip");
trace(file.url); //path to the file
//assuming that function takes a string path
reader.open(file.url);

and I got this error:

Scene 1, Layer 'Layer 1', Frame 1, Line 46
1067: Implicit coercion of a value of type String
to an unrelated type flash.filesystem:File.

Answer 1

This should give you a url to an existing file

File url

You could try something like this:

var file:File = File.applicationStorageDirectory.resolvePath("myFile.zip");
trace(file.url); //path to the file
//assuming that function takes a string path
reader.open(file.url);