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Created June 17, 2014 07:50
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Copy files from Android's assets folder to external storage (We will put some defaults files in /Assets folder, copy to /data/data/PACKAGE_NAME/images folder at runtime. And later, if new files available, the app will download images and replace to data/data folder)
private void copyAssets() {
AssetManager assetManager = getAssets();
String[] files = null;
try {
files = assetManager.list("img");
} catch (IOException e) {
Log.e("tag", "Failed to get asset file list.", e);
}
for(String filename : files) {
InputStream in = null;
OutputStream out = null;
try {
in = assetManager.open("img/" + filename);
File outFile = new File(sdCardPath +"/", filename);
out = new FileOutputStream(outFile);
copyFile(in, out);
in.close();
in = null;
out.flush();
out.close();
out = null;
} catch(IOException e) {
Log.e("tag", "Failed to copy asset file: " + filename, e);
}
}
}
private void copyFile(InputStream in, OutputStream out) throws IOException {
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
int read;
while((read = in.read(buffer)) != -1){
out.write(buffer, 0, read);
}
}
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