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

Don't know if things have changed or not but I had an app in Android 1.1 that opened icons to then display them in a view and I did it like so:

BufferedInputStream buf = new BufferedInputStream(mContext.openFileInput(value));
Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(buf);