Including External Assets to the APK

Question

I am using FlashDevelop 4.0.1 RTM to create a simple Android app and I would like to ask how to include external assets (images, xml & sounds located inside the bin folder) to the apk package.

Thanks.

Answer 1

As far as I see, you don't need the external assets to be actually external, they can be embedded , since anyway you want them embedded into the apk.

So just embed them into your swf. Instead of loading assets from the bin folder, do this:

public class YourClass {
    // Embed the asset
    [Embed(source='assets/yourImage.jpg')] private var yourImageClass:Class;

    // ...

    // Use the asset
    private function someFunction():void {
        var yourImage:DisplayObject = DisplayObject(new yourImageClass());
    }
}

You can embed pretty much any kind of file.