I’m trying to load some custom XML data into an Android application, so I put it in the assets folder so I can read it. However Eclipse won’t let me build my project; it says “invalid resource directory name” for the assets folder! I thought assets was a valid folder name in an Android project?
What am I missing? Did the folder somehow get some metadata that marks it as a resource folder instead of an asset folder? Or is the assets folder only supported in newer versions of Android? (I’m using SDK level 10)
Put that XML file in your
XML folderwithin res folder.