How can I get a directory listing of resources from my Android app?

Question

My Android application has some files in the assets directory that I want to open on startup by listing the files in the directory and opening each. I am trying to use the A

Answer 1

To be fully recursive you can update the method as following :

void displayFiles (AssetManager mgr, String path, int level) {

     Log.v(TAG,"enter displayFiles("+path+")");
    try {
        String list[] = mgr.list(path);
         Log.v(TAG,"L"+level+": list:"+ Arrays.asList(list));

        if (list != null)
            for (int i=0; i<list.length; ++i)
                {
                    if(level>=1){
                      displayFiles(mgr, path + "/" + list[i], level+1);
                    }else{
                         displayFiles(mgr, list[i], level+1);
                    }
                }
    } catch (IOException e) {
        Log.v(TAG,"List error: can't list" + path);
    }

}

Then call with :

final AssetManager mgr = applicationContext.getAssets();
displayFiles(mgr, "",0);     

Answer 2

Ugh. The problem was in the displayFiles method, it was missing the separator, "/", between the directory and the filename. Sorry if I wasted anyone's time. A corrected version of displayFiles is below.

void displayFiles (AssetManager mgr, String path) {
    try {
        String list[] = mgr.list(path);
        if (list != null)
            for (int i=0; i<list.length; ++i)
                {
                    Log.v("Assets:", path +"/"+ list[i]);
                    displayFiles(mgr, path + "/" + list[i]);
                }
    } catch (IOException e) {
        Log.v("List error:", "can't list" + path);
    }

}

John