How to initialize AASSET_Manager on SDL android app

Question

How do i use assetmanager.h from an SDL android app from android studio? Do i have to edit SDL_Activity.java? With what? Calling the functions from assetmanager.h crashes the app. Someone then commented that i need to get the java object or something along those lines before using the API.

I've been trying for weeks without success... Aassetmager_openDir will crash the app on Android. I have already added the -landroid to the mk file... C++, on Android studio and using the SDL2 library...

Answer 1

With the SDL2 on android you don't need to work with Asset manager.
All you need to do is to use SDL_RWFromFile() to read files from assets.

This will fallback on android assets as stated in the documentations https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL2/SDL_RWFromFile.

Here is an example code of reading a file from assets.

    SDL_RWops *rw = SDL_RWFromFile("file.txt", "r");
    if(rw) {
        // get the size of the file
        Sint64 size = SDL_RWsize(rw);

        // read the file into a buffer
        char *buffer = new char[size];
        SDL_RWread(rw, buffer, sizeof(char), size);
        // don't forget to close the file
        SDL_RWclose(rw);


        // do whatever you want to do with file data but don't forget to deallocate the buffer
        delete[] buffer;
    }

NOTE
You can't write to android assets but you can write to your app data directory.
to do so you call SDL_AndroidGetInternalStoragePath() to get the path of your android app data dir and then use SDL_RWFromFile() with "w" mode to create and write files in that directory.