InputStream from Assets folder on Android returning empty

Question

I\'m not getting any exceptions, but when I run...

InputStream deckFile = context.getAssets().open(\"cards.txt\");

Then, deckFile.read() r

Answer 1

The problem was that my file was too big, and was being compressed because of it's ".txt" extension. By renaming the file to a format that is normally compressed, ".mp3", there was no issue