Question

I have a file defined next to the default.properties, AndroidManifest.xml, called my_config.properties. my question is. how do open this file in my class?

if i move it to the class package i can read it using the folowing code:

 Properties configFile = new Properties();
    try {
        configFile.load(MyConstantsClass.class.getResourceAsStream("my_config.properties"));
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

but in this case the file needs to be inside the same package as the class i use this snippet in. how do i read from it when its defined like in the beggining of my question?
Thank you.

Answer 1

You can only open files from Android that are included in your APK, the current location of the my_config.properties will not be included in there. I would suggest that the right place for this kind of file would be your “assets” directory and you have to use the correct class to access it.