Android read text file from asset folder using C (ndk)

Question

I need to read text file from asset folder in android, by searching through internet I found that there is asset_manager api available from android 2.3 onwards. As I am targ

Answer 1

It's pretty similar to regular fread/fseek functions. Here's read function declaraton:

ssize_t read(int fd, void *buf, size_t count);

It reads from fd file descriptor into buf buffer count bytes. If you think about fread, then instead of:

fread(buf, count, size, file);

you will call:

read(fd, buf, count*size);

And that's it. It is so simple.

Seeking is also similar. Just look up the function declaration and read the argument names/description. It will be obvious.