How to get the path to the Android assets folder in the application package

Question

I have a whole folder structure that I want to copy from my assets folder. However, the mContext.getAssets().open() seems to only want a filename so that it can return an

Answer 1

Could you move the folder to your /raw folder? Then you could use:

 com.your.package:raw/yourFile

Like this:

int resourceId = context.getResources().getIdentifier("com.your.package:raw/somefile.txt");
File f = new File(context.getResources().openRawResource(resourceId));

And here's someone doing it with the assets folder:

Android Assets with sub folders

  InputStream is = getAssets().open("subfolder/somefile.txt");

Answer 2

Use file:///android_asset for accessing the asset folder and then you can always give your subfolder there.

AssetManager assetManager = null;   // null ???  Get the AssetManager here.
        AssetFileDescriptor assetFileDescriptor = null;
        try{
           assetFileDescriptor = assetManager.openFd("file:///android_asset/yourfolder/file");
                FileDescriptor fd = assetFileDescriptor.getFileDescriptor();
       } catch (Exception e){}

Answer 3

AssetManager am = con.getAssets();//u have get assets path from this code
InputStream inputStream = null;         
inputStream = am.open("file.xml");

or

String file_name="ur.xml"    
inputStream = am.open("foldername/"+ur);