How to get URI from an asset File

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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 exists I see that file doesn t exist  File f   new File filepath   if  f exists      true        Log e TAG   Valid      filepath     else       Log e TAG   InValid      filepath       Can some one tell me how I can mention the absolute path for a file existing in the asset folder

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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

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Try this out  it works  InputStream in s        getClass   getClassLoader   getResourceAsStream  quot TopBrands xml quot     If you get a Null Value Exception  try this  with class TopBrandData   InputStream in s1       TopBrandData class getResourceAsStream  quot  assets TopBrands xml quot

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There is no  absolute path for a file existing in the asset folder   The content of your project s assets  folder are packaged in the APK file  Use an AssetManager object to get an InputStream on an asset   For WebView  you can use the file Uri scheme in much the same way you would use a URL  The syntax for assets is file    android asset      note  three slashes  where the ellipsis is the path of the file from within the assets  folder

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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 - gt                      context assets open fileName  use   inputStream - gt                              inputStream copyTo cache                                                                             Get the path to the file like  val filePath    getFileFromAssets context   quot fileName extension quot   absolutePath

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Works for WebView but seems to fail on URL openStream    So you need to distinguish file    protocols and handle them via AssetManager as suggested

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Be sure  your assets folder put in correct position

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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

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try this    Uri uri   Uri parse  android resource     getPackageName       R raw cat      I had did it and it worked

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The correct url is   file    android asset RELATIVEPATH   where RELATIVEPATH is the path to your resource relative to the assets folder   Note the 3   s in the scheme  Web view would not load any of my assets without the 3  I tried 2 as  previously  commented by CommonsWare and it wouldn t work  Then I looked at CommonsWare s source on github and noticed the extra forward slash   This testing though was only done on the 1 6 Android emulator but I doubt its different on a real device or higher version   EDIT  CommonsWare updated his answer to reflect this tiny change  So I ve edited this so it still makes sense with his current answer

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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

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InputStream is   getResources   getAssets   open  quot terms txt quot    String textfile   convertStreamToString is        public static String convertStreamToString InputStream is          throws IOException        Writer writer   new StringWriter        char   buffer   new char 2048        try           Reader reader   new BufferedReader new InputStreamReader is   quot UTF-8 quot             int n          while   n   reader read buffer      -1                writer write buffer  0  n                   finally           is close               String text   writer toString        return text

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