On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Jason Proctor <[email protected] > wrote:
> (btw it used to work the other way round. did something change in r2 or > r3?) Not that I know of. The code you are posting that you are saying doesn't work as never worked afaik. > i don't want to do it this way, trust me. i'm having to do this > because i can't get a FileDescriptor to a file in /assets in my apk - > i get a "this file is zipped" error or somesuch. You need to store the asset uncompressed to be able to get a file descriptor for it. aapt will not compress certain extensions (.mp3 and .png for example) and I believe there is a command line argument to specify other extensions that shouldn't be compressed. > so i get an > InputStream from assetManager.open(path), cache it in /sdcard, then > get a FileDescriptor to the file and return that (from > ContentProvider.getFile()). I am not connecting this with having to use ComponentName, but that is okay. is there a better way round this than getting the resources for a > "foreign" activity like i'm doing? There is nothing wrong with loading and accessing the resources of another applications; in many cases it is by far the most efficient way to get stuff of it. And this doesn't require using ComponentName: use use Context.createPackageContext() to access the other package's resources. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
