Assets and APK

[kalmen chia]

Hi ,

Sorry for some dump questions .

Can anyone help me to clarify as i am still confuse with the Asset files and how we can get these files include in our APK.

1. I have a DS project , project-test and i can see that it will have a folder /storage/emulated/DroidScrpt/project-test/*

    where there are Html , Img , folder and other js files etc...

So my questions ,

1. when i generate APK , the local, source code, [Html] folder will map to Html folder , but i saw that the 

    Images is it will map to [img] , the [images] folder name change after APK  ? 

    How about [Misc] , which folder will it be mapped to ?

    and [Sounds]  will map to APK installed app folder ?

2. i have experience this , after i generate APK , all my local source code folder which has the files in the [Html] and all the js files

   i generated but was not actually included even i select to include "Asset files" before generation , i have to manually zip the whole

   source folder and after installed the App , then unZIP the Zip folders which include all the js , Html folders and all its files , 

   the app will then work properly.

3. and in it there is a config file using sqlite db . so what is the best practice of include all files in my APK ?

Thanks ,

Kalmen

[sankarshan dudhate]

Hi Kalmen,
I've never before experienced that assets aren't working in apks. I usually am a bit wayward about assets. I usually don't put my images into the 'Img' folder except the app logo and so is true for other files. However, every app I've compiled to an apk works as it should. I wouldn't care where they are as long as the app works.
I see that the /sdcard/DroidScript/appName/* folder is actually analogous to /assets/user/* folder in the apk. Isn't that the case with you ?

[kalmen chia]

Hi ,

Thanks for the answer , yes i have checked the APK and found those files is actually inside , but when it installed , these files is not be extracted

as per my Development time , but it seems that i need to somehow try to extract this files from the installation folder /Assets/User 

to the installation folder to actually get my app to work , 

do you have any idea of how ? ( to include this as a zip file ? but i suppose the files in the Asset/user is protected,

i mean at least obscured  , if i have to include the same files , i will need to obscure it before creating my deployment zip ?)

actually what is the best way to do this ?

[sankarshan dudhate]

What path are you using for the assets ? "/sdcard/DroidScript/AppName/someimage.png" etc. ?

[kalmen chia]

it is as what u mentioned ,

"/sdcard/DroidScript/AppName/Html/some.js"

"/sdcard/DroidScript/AppName/Html/somesqlite.db"

"/sdcard/DroidScript/AppName/Html/*.*"

"/sdcard/DroidScript/AppName/Images/someimage.png"

"/sdcard/DroidScript/AppName/Images/*.*"

"/sdcard/DroidScript/AppName/other.js"

"/sdcard/DroidScript/AppName/*.*"

is this causing the problem ? because after i generate the APK , it cannot run using the APK... of course my guess is that for those under the root

of my AppName , other.js becuase in my code , during development , i have app.loadscript("other.js") ... so will the generated

APK be able to know where to pick up the other.js ?

[Steve Garman]

You should not use absolute paths in your code for the very reason that they will not be in the same place on a target device.
Try relative paths not starting with "/" instead.

"Html/some.js"
"Html/somesqlite.db"
"Html/*.*"
"Images/someimage.png"
"Images/*.*"
"other.js"
"*.*"

Now that you have built loads of them into your code, I suggest changing them one at a time and run them in DroidScript to see if each one causes you problems.

If you get problems with an individual one because you are using a non-droidscript call to access it, you may need to change that one to
app.GetAppPath() + "/" + "Html/*.*"