I hadn't thought too much about that but had briefly considered it. I'm trying to use these images directly as resources so putting them in assets would require a fair bit more code to get everything loaded up into drawables for use as icons as such (at least, best I can tell it would take more code).
At the moment I'm leaning heavily toward the 'copy over to my res/ directory' option because that gives the benefit of everything working cleanly in Eclipse as well. I guess I'll toss this into the pile of feature requests for a future release: ability to have resources in other directories elsewhere in the developer's file system. On Dec 31 2009, 10:52 pm, joebowbeer <joe.bowb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Have you considered packaging the images as assets using aapt's -A > modifier? > > -A additional directory in which to find raw asset files > > On Dec 30, 11:32 pm, Walt Armour <waltarm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > We will potentially be sharing images between an android app and other > > apps (gotta keep those costs down). I am attempting to find a way to > > have the android app use image files that are outside of its project > > directory tree (i.e. not in res/drawable). > > > At the moment I'm thinking some custom work with aapt (via ant build) > > is my best shot. > > > I will first attempt multiple -S parameters (or multiple values for - > > S) but I'm not expecting that to work. > > > I will then see about two aapt runs. The first would generate the apk > > from the non-project directory. The second would generate from the > > project directory as normal and include (using -I) the first apk. > > > Has anyone attempted something like this before? Does anyone see any > > immediate problems with any of these approaches? I'm thinking there > > may be some hiccup in the identifier numbering but hopefully that can > > be handled. > > > Worst case scenario I'll just add an ant target to manually copy the > > external resources over before doing the build. I am really loathe to > > do that though. Accessing the images directly when needed is much > > safer. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
