Question

I have an Android project(A) that uses one library module(B) in Intellij IDEA 11. In the main module(A) I have a database file into assets directory and it’s working fine.

Let’s name the project modules like this: Main module (Module A) and secondary module(Module B).

Now I have to create a database for the library module(B) too and I added the database file into B assets directory because I thought that after compiling the project will be formed of one project having merged the module A and B. But the problem is that the B’s database is not copied into the project assets directory.

Is there a way to tell Intellij to merge the assets directory too?

PS: I also have different resources in B’s res directory and the application is working properly…

Thank you!

Answer 1

I am not familiar with IntelliJ. But I think this is more related to the Android SDK constraints, other than a config setting from IDE. as it is stated in the official dev guide here:

Library projects cannot include raw assets

The tools do not support the use of raw asset files (saved in the assets/ directory) in a library project. Any asset resources used by an application must be stored in the assets/ directory of the application project itself. However, resource files saved in the res/ directory are supported.

You should not use assets folder in library project, instead, put all db files into your main project’s assets folder.