Opening a File from assets folder in android

Question

I have a .gif file inside the assets folder like this assets/Files/android.gif. when I try to open the file it throws an exception at the second line

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Answer 1

I suspect you are getting complaints about unhandled exception type IOException. If that's the case, you need to put the call to mgr.open in a try-catch block to handle the exception that may occur when retrieving the InputStream object.

AssetManager mngr = getAssets();
try {
    InputStream is2 = mngr.open("Files/android.gif");
} catch (final IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}