How to get URI from an asset File?

Question

I have been trying to get the URI path for an asset file.

uri = Uri.fromFile(new File(\"//assets/mydemo.txt\"));

When I check if the file

Answer 1

Try this out, it works:

InputStream in_s = 
    getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("TopBrands.xml");

If you get a Null Value Exception, try this (with class TopBrandData):

InputStream in_s1 =
    TopBrandData.class.getResourceAsStream("/assets/TopBrands.xml");

Answer 2

Yeah you can't access your drive folder from you android phone or emulator because your computer and android are two different OS.I would go for res folder of android because it has good resources management methods. Until and unless you have very good reason to put you file in assets folder. Instead You can do this

try {
      Resources res = getResources();
      InputStream in_s = res.openRawResource(R.raw.yourfile);

      byte[] b = new byte[in_s.available()];
      in_s.read(b);
      String str = new String(b);
    } catch (Exception e) {
      Log.e(LOG_TAG, "File Reading Error", e);
 }

Answer 3

Finally, I found a way to get the path of a file which is present in assets from this answer in Kotlin. Here we are copying the assets file to cache and getting the file path from that cache file.

@Throws(IOException::class)
    fun getFileFromAssets(context: Context, fileName: String): File = File(context.cacheDir, fileName)
            .also {
               if (!it.exists()) {
                it.outputStream().use { cache ->
                    context.assets.open(fileName).use { inputStream ->
                            inputStream.copyTo(cache)
                    }
                  }
                }
            }

Get the path to the file like:

val filePath =  getFileFromAssets(context, "fileName.extension").absolutePath

Answer 4

Worked for me Try this code

   uri = Uri.fromFile(new File("//assets/testdemo.txt"));
   String testfilepath = uri.getPath();
    File f = new File(testfilepath);
    if (f.exists() == true) {
    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"valid :" + testfilepath, 2000).show();
    } else {
   Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"invalid :" + testfilepath, 2000).show();
 }

Answer 5

Please try this code working fine

 Uri imageUri = Uri.fromFile(new File("//android_asset/luc.jpeg"));

    /* 2) Create a new Intent */
    Intent imageEditorIntent = new AdobeImageIntent.Builder(this)
            .setData(imageUri)
            .build();