Android asset support/deployment advice needed

[BogDan]

Hi,

I've know that issue.
The problem is that we can't/should't use AssetDir instead of AAsset because AssetDir is using an internal (non-public) library. This will not be a problem if we'll have access to the source code of all android platforms, sadly we don't have access to the latest source code (yes, it seems Google becomes a closed-source company day by day), so using AssetDir will be very risky, so I'll try to another approach, I added two more functions to official public asset implementation (check the attachment), one to get the folders (AAssetDir_getNextDirName), and one to get the files count inside a folder (AAssetDir_getFileCount), then I'll create a merge request to see if Google will accept it.

Anyway, assets are similar with qt's built in resources (and AFAIK qrc doesn't has any dir information), so I don't think anybody will expect assets to be perfect.

Cheers,
BogDan.



----- Original Message -----
> From: Thomas Senyk <thomas.senyk at nokia.com>
> To: BogDan <bog_dan_ro at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "necessitas-devel at kde.org" <necessitas-devel at kde.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 6:03 PM
> Subject: Re: Android asset support/deployment advice needed
> 
> I found the next problem with assets ... and this one might be a bigger one.
> 
> If you take a look at:
> AAssetDir_getNextFileName
> 
> you'll see that it doesn't report sub-directories (intentionally!)
> This means: That way we can't do any sub-directory listing!
> 
> 
> AAssetDir doesn't provide anything else (or maybe I'm blind)
> AssetDir would provide it! 
> Do we want to use AssetDir instead? 
> We would basically rewrite all the AAset* stuff and use Aset* directly ... 
> right?
> 
> 
> I could start the work (but I'm on vacation next week)
> 
> IMHO: If we want to do any release (alpha or beta) with asset support, we 
> absolutely need this.
> 
> 
> Greets
> Thomas
> 
> On Thursday, July 07, 2011 02:11:41 AM ext BogDan wrote:
>>  Done 
> http://commits.kde.org/android-qt/8519abd01958ac29801aec16eba452a9d224b
>>  203
>> 
>>  Cheers,
>>  BogDan.
>> 
>>  >________________________________
>>  >From: Thomas Senyk <thomas.senyk at nokia.com>
>>  >To: necessitas-devel at kde.org
>>  >Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2011 8:52 PM
>>  >Subject: Re: Android asset support/deployment advice needed
>>  >
>>  >AAssetDir is never used.
>>  >
>>  >Therefor he can't do any listing ... I suspect this is the problem.
>>  >
>>  >I'm going to look into it ... maybe I can fix it
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >Greets
>>  >Thomas
>>  >
>>  >On Tuesday, July 05, 2011 07:09:32 PM Thomas Senyk wrote:
>>  >> Has anyone every tried more then one .qml file?
>>  >> 
>>  >> It seams he doesn't find the files within the same directory.
>>  >> 
>>  >> I created a new "Qt Quck Application" and added a new 
> MyRect.qml
>>  >> But I can't create a MyRect Item in main.qml
>>  >> 
>>  >> Greets
>>  >> Thomas
>>  >> 
>>  >> On Thursday, June 30, 2011 10:31:26 AM ext Niko Sams wrote:
>>  >> > thanks!
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