What does file android asset www index html mean

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I want to know what does file     mean while loading a html file from the assets folder in android  Is it an absolute path name which points to the root directory   I saw this in the tutorial for phonegap by the way

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The URI  file    android asset   points to YourProject app src main assets    Note  android asset  uses the singular  asset  and src main assets uses the plural  assets    Suppose you have a file YourProject app src main assets web thing html that you would like to display in a WebView  You can refer to it like this   WebView webViewer    WebView  findViewById R id webViewer   webView loadUrl  file    android asset web thing html      The snippet above could be located in your Activity class  possibly in the onCreate method    Here is a guide to the overall directory structure of an android project  that helped me figure out this answer

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It is actually called file    android asset index html file    android assets index html will give you a build error

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If someone uses AndroidStudio make sure that the assets folder is placed in  app src main assets directory

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it s file    android asset      not file    android assets     notice the plural of assets is wrong even if your file name is assets

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It took me more than 4 hours to fix this problem  I followed the guide from http   docs phonegap com en 2 1 0 guide getting-started android index md html Getting 20Started 20with 20Android   I m using Android Studio  Eclipse with ADT could not work properly because of the build problem    Solution that worked for me    I put the  assets www index html under app src main assets directory   take care AndroidStudio has different perspectives like Project or Android  use super loadUrl  file    android asset www index html    instead of super loadUrl  file    android assets www index html     no s

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file     is a URI  Uniform Resource Identifier  that simply distinguishes from the standard URI that we all know of too well - http      It does imply an absolute path name pointing to the root directory in any environment  but  in the context of Android  it s a convention to tell the Android run-time to say  Here  the directory www has a file called index html located in the assets folder in the root of the project    That is how assets are loaded at runtime  for example  a WebView widget would know exactly where to load the embedded resource file by specifying the file     URI   Consider the code example   WebView webViewer    WebView  findViewById R id webViewer   webView loadUrl  file    android asset www index html      A very easy mistake to make here is this  some would infer it to as file    android assets  notice the plural of assets in the URI and wonder why the embedded resource is not working

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