Question

I have some 150+ PNG in my application that I need to constantly read.

Do i have to move these files from my assets folder to /data/data/myApp.com/ as I do for opening a database?

OR

isn’t there a way, as in iPhone, to just read from the application bundle?

As if, instead of adding my PNGs to assets I could add them to myApp.com/images and read from there, regardless of whether it’s been installed internally or to the SD card?

Any help is appreciated

regards
~david

Answer 1

Context.getAssets() http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Context.html#getAssets() returns an AssetManager that allows you to read bundled data.
For example

InputStream is=getAssets().open("image.png",AssetManager.ACCESS_STREAMING);

Will read image.png from your assets folder.