File in assets folder needs a resId to be used

Question

I am new to Android, so this is probably a dumb question.

I have a sound file in my assets folder:

app|assets|www|sounds|hooray.ogg

Now I want to load it into my SoundPool

// THIS IS NOT RIGHT and is underlined in wavy error-red
mySoundPool.load(m_Context,
                "file:///android_asset/www/sounds/hooray.ogg",
                1);

It is saying the "file:///android..." etc should be a resId.

How do I assign a resId to this file?

Answer 1

How do I assign a resId to this file?

You can't. A resource ID is for resources, not assets.

Either:

• Move this file to app/src/main/res/raw/hooray.ogg and then use R.raw.hooray as your resource ID, or

• Use getAssets().openFd("www/sounds/hooray.ogg") to get an AssetFileDescriptor, then pass that to a different version of the load() method on your SoundPool