How to reference a File in raw folder in Android

Question

I just want to create a File object like this

File myImageFile = new File (\"image1\") ;

but it is giving me exception of FileNotFou

Answer 1

You can open it as InputStream, I don't know if possible as a file:

int rid = resources.getIdentifier(packageName + ":raw/" + fileName, null, null);  
//get the file as a stream  
InputStrea is = resources.openRawResource(rid);