Why is AssetManger.list() so slow?

Question

I\'m trying to populate a ListView with a mixture of files stored on the SDcard AND stored as assets in the APK. Using TraceView, I can see that the performanc

Answer 1

You can approach APK package as it's a ZIP file and read all the entries using Java's builtin ZipFile. It will give you all the file names with their full paths. Perhaps it shouldn't be hard to find which directories you have.

So far this is the fastest approach I've tested.

credit goes to @obastemur's commit on jxcore-android-basics sample project