So what you say is that's it's impossible to have a FileDescriptor
pointing to my raw sound ...

But when you call MediaPlayer.create() it does kinda localize the
sound in the APK.
I'm sure there must be a way to load a sound located in the APK :)

On 26 mai, 02:28, Marco Nelissen <marc...@android.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Moons <moone...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello Marco.
> > Altough I understood what you said, I am not very good with
> > FileDescriptors.
> > So you mean that I can't have a File descriptor for a raw resource in
> > my APK?
>
> Correct. An APK file is essentially a ZIP file, and your raw resources exist
> only within the zip file, not as separate files. Therefore, when you get a
> file descriptor for a resource, what you're really getting is a file
> desciptor for the apk, along with the position within the apk, i.e. offset
> and length. This is why openRawResourceFd() returns an AssetFileDescriptor,
> not a FileDescriptor.
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