Android Native Activity AssetManager VS 2019 Not Working

Question

I am trying to load an image and a text file using the AAssetManager in the Android Native Activity in VS 2019. I've tried every combination of paths I could think of to get AAssetManager_openDir or AAssetManager_open to give me a file. Solutions I've found elsewhere were related to incorrect paths or the AAssetManager object wasn't valid.

Here is how I'm trying to get access to my image and text files.

 AAssetManager* pMan = m_pApp->activity->assetManager; AAsset* pAsset = AAssetManager_open(pMan, "drawable\\testpng", AASSET_MODE_BUFFER); // Always returns NULL AAssetDir* pAssetDir = AAssetManager_openDir(pMan, "res\\drawable"); const char* szFilename; while ((szFilename = AAssetDir_getNextFileName(pAssetDir)) != NULL) { // 'szFilename' is always NULL and this print never gets hit __android_log_print(ANDROID_LOG_DEBUG, "Debug", szFilename); }

This is my Android.Packaging project.

Android Manifest

<string name="testpng">drawable\test.png</string> <string name="testdrawtxt">drawable\testtext.txt</string> <string name="testpng2">drawable\assets\test2.png</string> <string name="testdrawtxt2">drawable\assets\testtext2.txt</string>

And finally the actual output directory

The asset manager is valid as far as I know. What am I doing wrong?

Assets should not be under res, but on the same level of hieararchy. — Alex Cohn
– Alex Cohn, Commented Oct 19, 2019 at 20:06
That was it! I spent too long on this and I was just putting it in the wrong directory. I created a folder called "assets" next to the "res" folder and put the items inside there. Simply calling AAssetManager_open(pMan, "test.png", AASSET_MODE_BUFFER) worked with no problems. Thanks very much. Why not post it as an answer? — szMuzzyA
– szMuzzyA, Commented Oct 19, 2019 at 20:26

Alex Cohn · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-20 06:58:00Z

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Assets should not be under res, but on the same level of hieararchy.

answered Oct 20, 2019 at 6:58

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