Null-pointer issue displaying an image from assets folder Android 2.2 SDK

Question

I looked at the 2 examples on Stack, but can\'t get them to work. I\'m simply trying to grab an image from a folder in assets and set it as in ImageView, but get a null pointer

Answer 1

Where is "file:///android_asset/Samples/" + imageName coming from? If your hierarchy looks like assets/file_name.jpg, you would just call open(file_name.jpg). In other words, try replacing your file:///android_asset/Samples/" + imageName with just imageName.

Check out the API Demos, specifically the ReadAsset.java class:

try {
        InputStream is = getAssets().open("read_asset.txt");

...

where the assets folder looks like