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Can't Access Raw Asset Path
See original GitHub issueSay I have an asset called livefree.ogg that is located in Raw/Songs
Application
|-Resources
|-Raw
|-Songs
|-livefree.ogg -> Build Action: Maui Asset
If I need to say, loop over all the files in Raw/Songs, how do I do so? Using FileSystem.OpenAppPackageFileAsync doesn’t get me access to the path of the item, just a stream. Which in my case, I need a path and not a stream. Is this possible with MAUI?
None of the following return any files:
Directory.GetFiles("Songs");
Directory.GetFiles("/Songs");
Directory.GetFiles("Resources/Songs");
Directory.GetFiles("/Resources/Songs");
Directory.GetFiles("Raw/Songs");
Directory.GetFiles("/Raw/Songs");
Directory.GetFiles("Resources/Raw/Songs");
Directory.GetFiles("/Resources/Raw/Songs");
Directory.GetFiles(Path.Combine(FileSystem.AppDataDirectory, "Songs"));
Directory.GetFiles(Path.Combine(FileSystem.AppDataDirectory, "Raw", "Songs"));
Directory.GetFiles(Path.Combine(FileSystem.AppDataDirectory, "Resource", "Raw", "Songs"));
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That particular function is related to C# reflection and not specific to Android. It can work if you set the build action to ‘Embedded Resource’ instead of a ‘MauiAsset’.
Although a workaround, it would be nice to have direct access to MauiAssets. I’m going to guess there is some lower level OS limitations with direct access and maybe that is why it isn’t available.
@xtuzy, so you’re saying the only possible way would be to copy all resources to the apps local data folder, then accessing them that way? I personally don’t like this as it would double the size of the resources.