Android: how do I create File object from asset file?
android, assets, file
Solution
You cannot get a `File` object directly from an asset, because the asset is not stored as a file. You will need to copy the asset to a file, then get a `File` object on your copy.
Problem
I have a text file in the assets folder that I need to turn into a File object (not into InputStream). When I tried this, I got "no such file" exception: ``` String path = "file:///android_asset/datafile.txt"; URL url = new URL(path); File file = new File(url.toURI()); // Get exception here ``` Can I modify this to get it to work? By the way, I sort of tried to "code by example" looking at the following piece of code elsewhere in my project that references an HTML file in the assets folder ``` public static Dialog doDialog(final Context context) { WebView wv = new WebView(context); wv.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/help/index.html"); ``` I do admit that I don't fully understand the above mechanism so it's possible that what I am trying to do can't work. Thx!