How can I get a directory listing of resources from my Android app?
My Android application has some files in the assets directory that I want to open on startup by listing the files in the directory and opening each. I am trying to use the AssetManager to do this but it does not seem to do as I would expect. My sample code is below. Is this the correct way or is there a better way to do this?
And I am using the following method to print out the assets directory tree.
void displayFiles (AssetManager mgr, String path) {
try {
String list[] = mgr.list(path);
if (list != null)
for (int i=0; i<list.length; ++i)
{
Log.v("Assets:", path +"/"+ list[i]);
displayFiles(mgr, path + list[i]);
}
} catch (IOException e) {
Log.v("List error:", "can't list" + path);
}
}
From my Activity's onCreate method I do the following:
final AssetManager mgr = getAssets();
displayFiles(mgr, "/assets");
displayFiles(mgr, "./assets");
displayFiles(mgr, "/");
displayFiles(mgr, "./");
Which gives me the following output
09-29 20:08:27.843: DEBUG/GFlash(6543): //AndroidManifest.xml 09-29 20:08:27.954: DEBUG/GFlash(6543): //META-INF 09-29 20:08:28.063: DEBUG/GFlash(6543): //assets 09-29 20:08:28.233: DEBUG/GFlash(6543): //classes.dex 09-29 20:08:28.383: DEBUG/GFlash(6543): //com 09-29 20:08:28.533: DEBUG/GFlash(6543): //res 09-29 20:08:28.683: DEBUG/GFlash(6543): //resources.arsc
Thanks in advance!
John
Ugh. The problem was in the displayFiles method, it was missing the separator, "/", between the directory and the filename. Sorry if I wasted anyone's time. A corrected version of displayFiles is below.
void displayFiles (AssetManager mgr, String path) {
try {
String list[] = mgr.list(path);
if (list != null)
for (int i=0; i<list.length; ++i)
{
Log.v("Assets:", path +"/"+ list[i]);
displayFiles(mgr, path + "/" + list[i]);
}
} catch (IOException e) {
Log.v("List error:", "can't list" + path);
}
}
John
To be fully recursive you can update the method as following :
void displayFiles (AssetManager mgr, String path, int level) {
Log.v(TAG,"enter displayFiles("+path+")");
try {
String list[] = mgr.list(path);
Log.v(TAG,"L"+level+": list:"+ Arrays.asList(list));
if (list != null)
for (int i=0; i<list.length; ++i)
{
if(level>=1){
displayFiles(mgr, path + "/" + list[i], level+1);
}else{
displayFiles(mgr, list[i], level+1);
}
}
} catch (IOException e) {
Log.v(TAG,"List error: can't list" + path);
}
}
Then call with :
final AssetManager mgr = applicationContext.getAssets();
displayFiles(mgr, "",0);