Question

I’m utterly confused. There’s an ‘assets’ folder in my project, but the AssetManager does not refer to this folder. So I have three questions:

First, where is the folder that AssetManager refers to?

Second, how do I put files into that folder?

Third, how do I access the files that I put into my project’s ‘assets’ folder? (Corollary question: what is the purpose of this folder if it’s not used by AssetManager?)

The docs completely fail to clarify these issues. Very frustrating.

Answer 1

You can drag the resources you want in your project to the /assets folder and access them via code by:

context.getAssets().open(YOUR_FILE_NAME);

context.getAssets() will simply return an AssetManager instance for your application package, from where you can access the files.

Hope it helps!