Toml and ConfigParser won't work on android, help!

[Claver Barreto]

Hello mates, so im trying to make this tutorial screen?dialog?popup? you name it. So basically i have a MDDialog popping out on the screen with a tutorial text.

At first i would get the text from an INI file "tutorial.ini" using python's ConfigParser, it works fine on my computer, the text is displayed, however when i try the app on my android mobile device, the app crash with a "NoSectionError".

So after failing a lot with ConfigParser, i decided to try with Toml, now with Toml i get a "FileNotFoundError", this one "FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'tutorial.toml'

here is the structure of my toml/INI file:

[gameconfig]

tutorialused = False

[gameinstruction]

instruction1 = "some text"

instruction2 = "some text 2"

Now as i said, with ConfigParser, it says that "configparser.NoSectionError: No section: 'gameconfig'".

With Toml i get the error "FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'tutorial.toml'

Any ideas why this is happening and hopefully how to fix it?

[Elliot Garbus]

I have not done any Android programming – so take this with a grain of salt.

 

Check the file locations, and make sure you can accesses them as expected.  Config parser is expecting file-like objects to read and write.

If you need to do anything Android specific the read/write the files, you could access the file as a textfile and parse using ConfigParser.read_string()

You could use the python io module to write to a StringIO object in the ConfigParser.write(), and the save the string with the Android specific code.

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[Robert]

There is nothing special about Config on Android.

Two things that are different about using and building for Android, I'd look at these:

The android file system is organized in a different way to the desktop.

If you want to package the .ini you have to specify it in buildozer.spec 

[Claver Barreto]

hello mate. im sorry for the late reply, i've underestimated how tired i was and slept with my computer on. So i tried with the StringIO method, and it gives a different error, which is the FileNotFoundError, which is the error that appeared when i used toml

[Claver Barreto]

hello mate, sorry for the late reply. I did indeed not specify the INI format in buildozer.spec, i thought that since configparser is a built-in module, it wouldn't require me to do it. let me try this.

[Claver Barreto]

So the solution was indeed adding the .ini to the buildozer.spec, after that, i did "buildozer appclean" and made a new build and it worked. thank you mates.