upload many files in one step?

[Ralph Tremmel]

"upload File" offers to upload a single file only.

Is there actually no way to upload many files in one step?

Thanks Ralph

[SteveJG]

I know of no way to add resources to Media other than "one at a time".     I expect one of the guys that disassembles the aia files and looks at the project manifest may have another 

way to load/delete  files, but that will be outside of AI2, using text editors etc.  Be patient and someone may post about how to do this outside of the normal AI2 environment.

If you have lots of files in one project and want to use them in another, just save the current project with a different name, then open the new project and delete everything but the resources.  The 

resources follow the Project on the MIT server.

Regards,

Steve

[Ralph Tremmel]

Thanks Steve.

I expected this but just wanted to be sure.

This is my 3rd app with AI/AI2 and each time more than 20 images to be loaded. Who knows what else will come :)

[M. Hossein Amerkashi]

Download source.  Add  in assets folder.  Upload source

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[Ralph Tremmel]

Hello Mr. Amerkashi.

 

I know the assets folder. My first 2 apps I only could build with the help of ATM because of the sizes alone. Each one had a lot of images, which I loaded via assets. But again I need to load about 20 files in advance for tests. And even if it would be 5 only, it would be nice to load in one go. As I said, I just wanted to be sure. Perhaps I overlooked an information.

Regards Ralph 

[M. Hossein Amerkashi]

@Ralph, for what you are doing, you don't need AppToMarket. I was talking about the actual project source (.aia) not the .apk. Just download source, use a zip utility (7zip) to open up the .aia, and then add all your media files into assets folder, then re-upload your .aia into MIT AI

-Hossein.

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[SteveJG]

Ralph,

Hossein provided the answer I thought might come.  Why it works:  the aia file is actually a zip file, renamed to work with AI2   ... I believe the aia stands for AI Assets.

As Hossein says, use a program like the free 7zip to open your aia file.    Download your project's source aia to your PC.  Use 7zip to open up the .aia,  When you do that, you will find three folders; assets, src and youngandroidproject.    Ignore the last two folders.   Open the assets folder.   If you opened an existing project that already has image files, html files and others, you will see these files in thisfolder.    To add the new assets,  drag the files you want to add into this folder.    Now, zip the three folders into a zipped folder and call it theProjectName.aia   (or you can call it theProjectName.zip and then modify the sufix from zip to aia. )   Now load this project aia into the AI2 browser and you should have all the files you needed listed as assets in the Media area.

@Hossein...thanks.

Did that work for you?

 

Regards, 

Steve

[Ralph Tremmel]

@Hossein + @Steve

Thanks !!!

It works and is THE great solution for me.

Ralph