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Devrath
Devrath

Reputation: 42824

How to find the URI for the File in assets folder xamarin

I have a video placed in Assets folder of android 

Assets/LanguageResource/MyVideo.mp4

How to find the URI for the asset file

private void startVideo()
        {
            //Creating MediaController
            mediaController = new MediaController(this);
            mediaController.SetAnchorView(video);
            video.SetMediaController(mediaController);
            video.SetVideoURI(uri);
            video.RequestFocus();
            video.Start();
        }

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5902

Answers (2)

Grace Feng
Grace Feng

Reputation: 16652

The URL for the asset file should be like this: file:///android_asset/one.mp4.

And you can get the AbsolutePath of the file for example like this:

var file = new File(Android.Net.Uri.Parse("file:///android_asset/one.mp4").ToString());
var uri = file.AbsolutePath;

And assets added to your project will show up just like a file system that can read from by app using AssetManager.

If you want to access the stream of this file, you can check the official document like this: Using Android Assets.

Edit:

Sorry, problem is that we cannot play video from assets folder, you need to load it from raw/ resource folder.

Upvotes: 4

Pratik Patel
Pratik Patel

Reputation: 16

You can able to find a file from AssetManager of android and get a stream of file directly.

like var br = new BinaryReader(Application.Context.Assets.Open("LanguageResource/MyVideo.mp4");

Upvotes: 0

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