Android Studio / Gradle not including assets directory by default

[Daniele Segato]

Hi,

I created a project with Android Studio

so the directory structure is as follow:

src/

    main/

           java/

           res/

Today I was trying to integrate the TagManager for the first time.

I followed the guide indicated to place a file in res/assets/tagmanager/GTM-XXXXXX.json for the default configuration.

I did.

And it simply printed this in the log when trying to open the container:

09-26 18:39:28.203    1379-1379/com.my.package.debug W/GoogleTagManager﹕ No asset file: tagmanager/GTM-XXXXXX found.

09-26 18:39:28.203    1379-1379/com.my.package.debug W/GoogleTagManager﹕ No asset file: tagmanager/GTM-XXXXXX.json found (or errors reading it).

09-26 18:39:28.203    1379-1379/com.my.package.debug W/GoogleTagManager﹕ No default container found; creating an empty container.

Now I struggled a very long time trying to figure out what was wrong with that but the json was valid.

In the end I checked if the file was actually there using the AssetManager... it wasn't.

So I manually added this to the gradle configuration:

    sourceSets {

        main {

            assets.srcDirs = ['src/main/res/assets']

        }

    }

With this it included the assets directory and finally my json was loaded.

But wait.

It's not done yet....

It works when I execute it from command line.

I couldn't find any way to make it work from inside Android Studio.

Android Studio simply insisted to ignore the assets directory.

My build.gradle is this:

buildscript {

    repositories {

        mavenCentral()

    }

    dependencies {

        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.5.+'

    }

}

apply plugin: 'android'

repositories {

    mavenCentral()

}

android {

    final RELEASE_PROVIDER = "com.my.package.sync.provider";

    final RELEASE_ACCOUNT_TYPE = "myaccount.com";

    final DEBUG_PROVIDER = "com.my.package.sync.debug.provider";

    final DEBUG_ACCOUNT_TYPE = "devel.myaccount.com";

    final RELEASE_ACCOUNT_NAME_DUMMY = "dummyaccount";

    final DEBUG_ACCOUNT_NAME_DUMMY = "dummyaccountdebug";

    final BUILD_CONFIG_CORMAT = "public static final String PROVIDER_AUTHORITY = \"%s\";\n" +

                            "    public static final String ACCOUNT_TYPE = \"%s\";\n" +

                            "    public static final String ACCOUNT_NAME_DUMMY = \"%s\";";

    compileSdkVersion 18

    buildToolsVersion "18.0.1"

    defaultConfig {

        minSdkVersion 15

        targetSdkVersion 18

    }

    sourceSets {

        main {

            assets.srcDirs = ['src/main/res/assets']

        }

    }

    buildTypes {

        release {

//            runProguard true

            buildConfig String.format(BUILD_CONFIG_CORMAT, RELEASE_PROVIDER, RELEASE_ACCOUNT_TYPE, RELEASE_ACCOUNT_NAME_DUMMY);

        }

        debug {

//            jniDebugBuild true

//            runProguard true

            packageNameSuffix ".debug"

            versionNameSuffix "-debug"

            buildConfig String.format(BUILD_CONFIG_CORMAT, DEBUG_PROVIDER, DEBUG_ACCOUNT_TYPE, DEBUG_ACCOUNT_NAME_DUMMY);

        }

    }

}

dependencies {

    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:18.0.0'

    compile project(':ViewPagerIndicator:library')

    compile project(':volley')

    compile files('libs/libGoogleAnalyticsServices_3.0.jar')

}

The debug/release settings only contains an AndroidManifest with the 3 settings for the SyncAdapter in my app, linking to different xml/ files.

It didn't matter how many times I clicked the icon to sync with gradle or closed/reopened the project. I had to DELETE it from the list of project in Android Studio and re-import it to make it work again.

Have I done something weird?

Am I the only one experiencing this issue?

Shouldn't the assets directory be included by default without me specifying it?

Thanks in advance,

Regards,

Daniele

[Marcus Ramsden]

The assets directory should be under src/main as opposed to src/main/res for Android Studio to pick it up. That's also the expected location for the directory with Gradle.

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[Daniele Segato]

Uh?

I didn't noticed

you are right:

http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/user-guide#TOC-Project-Structure

And why is that?

It was within res/ folder in Eclipse I remember

Thanks... I'll pay more attention to the doc next time

And I move it back to where it is supposed to be