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Android / Dumb question.. where do I store my images?

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iamroy
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Sorry, I'm new to this library. If I have the following:



Where do I store image1.png? Should it go in the assets/media?

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The Daddy
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Posted: 5th Mar 2014 20:51
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Iamroy

When you ask "where" you do not state on what device, as it differs from device to device. For a windows desktop, you would store your media in the Apps BIN folder, on an android app developed on a windows desktop, you would store it under the android assets folder. Not sure about iOS!

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Sorry, yes assets/media!

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Yeah I tried that but I just have red x's :/
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iamroy, make sure that the name of the file and the code you load it with are exactly the same casewise. Android is case sensitive. So 'image.png' and 'Image.PNG' are two different files (unlike in Windows).

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Thanks Ancient Lady, tried that and still no luck. I'm going to try saving it with different PNG settings. Maybe Android is picky about its PNGS?
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I think T2 uses the /assets folder as the "root" folder while T1 uses /assets/media. If you are using t2 and want to store images in the media folder, you want to use "media/image.png" as the image path or move the image out of the media folder

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Do you explicitly use 'media' in the load or just let it default?

I always explicitly use '/media/somefile.png' and did this both with Tier 1 and Tier 2.

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In T1 I don't type out /media. I noticed that when saving a file, the default location is /media/filename so I don't think it's needed. On T2 the root directory seems to be assets so you have to type /media to get to the media folder

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I can't figure it out. This is T2.

This is my code: agk::LoadImage ( mciBottomThrust, "/media/bottomthrust.png" );

I have the image inside of the assets folder, the media folder and just to check the res/drawable folder. I've tried many different combinations of /media, media, assets/media, /assets/media and I've also tried the drawable directory. I've also looked in the project folders and made sure the files are there.

Such a weird thing to have trouble with.

When I add an image to my project, do I need do anything special to it? Or can I just drag it into my media folder?
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Ok so I went through a just resaved my png file. Now it works if I use media/filename. Thank you all for the help, I appreciate it. Looking forward to using this engine.
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