How to pass a file path which is in assets folder to File String path

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Possible Duplicate    Android - How to determine the Absolute path for specific file from Assets        I am trying to pass a file to File String path  class  Is there a way to find absolute path of the file in assets folder and pass it to File    I tried file    android asset myfoldername myfilename as path string but it didnt work  Any idea

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Unless you unpack them  assets remain inside the apk  Accordingly  there isn t a path you can feed into a File  The path you ve given in your question will work with in a WebView  but I think that s a special case for WebView   You ll need to unpack the file or use it directly   If you have a Context  you can use context getAssets   open  myfoldername myfilename    to open an InputStream on the file  With the InputStream you can use it directly  or write it out somewhere  after which you can use it with File

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AFAIK  you can t create a File from an assets file because these are stored in the apk  that means there is no path to an assets folder   But  you can try to create that File using a buffer and the AssetManager  it provides access to an application s raw asset files    Try to do something like   AssetManager am   getAssets    InputStream inputStream   am open  myfoldername myfilename    File file   createFileFromInputStream inputStream    private File createFileFromInputStream InputStream inputStream        try        File f   new File my file name         OutputStream outputStream   new FileOutputStream f         byte buffer     new byte 1024         int length   0         while  length inputStream read buffer    gt  0            outputStream write buffer 0 length                  outputStream close          inputStream close           return f      catch  IOException e               Logging exception          return null      Let me know about your progress

[android] How to pass a file path which is in assets folder to File(String path)?

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