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Managing assets between desktop and device version in libgdx

Asked 2012-03-27T15:44:58.157
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I'm building a little Android game using libgdx. For now I have a copy of the game's assets in the desktop project folder and the Android project folder. For some strange reason I have to access those files differently in each of the two versions.

This works fine in the desktop app but gives me a FileNotFound exception in the android app:

Texture texture = new Texture(Gdx.files.internal("assets/someImage.png"));

If I remove the "assets" from the filename it's the other way round (Android works, desktop crashes):

Texture texture = new Texture(Gdx.files.internal("someImage.png"));

I'm not sure what the problem is. The folder structure is exactly the same for both projects... What is the right way to this with libgdx?

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Check if all of your files are in lower case in android assets folder

answered 2012-07-19T15:26:55.157
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Referencing the android assets folder is not a really good idea, because:

1) Eclipse will probly take copy your referenced assets folder to the apk of the android project, duplicating the size of 2) paths should be platform agnostics. As I see it, this is a JogFiles implementation issue.

You better copy the folloing class to your classpath:



package com.badlogic.gdx.backends.jogl;
/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright 2011 See AUTHORS file.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 ******************************************************************************/
package com.badlogic.gdx.backends.jogl;

import java.io.File;

import com.badlogic.gdx.Files;
import com.badlogic.gdx.files.FileHandle;

/**
 * Gdx class overrided in order to keep internal files paths platform independent.
 * Android search at "assets/" folder. And so we do here for jogl.
 */
final class JoglFiles implements Files {
    private static final String ASSETS_FOLDER = "assets";
    private final String externalPath = System.getProperty("user.home") + "/";

    @Override public FileHandle getFileHandle (String fileName, FileType type) {
        return new JoglFileHandle(fileName, type);
    }

    @Override public FileHandle classpath (String path) {
        return new JoglFileHandle(path, FileType.Classpath);
    }

    @Override public FileHandle internal (String path) {
        // append "as
answered 2012-07-26T22:09:34.947

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