[SOLVED] Get all files in the content directory

Toemsel92 · October 2, 2016, 4:13am

Hello!

Currently porting my app to Android. While
Directory.GetFiles(path)
worked on UWP like a dream, it does not work on Android. I guess because on Android it starts from the root folder of your phone.

How am I able to get all files out of my ‘content’ folder?
My aim is to get all .xml files in my content (or sub) folder to load them on demand.

The path:
System.Environment.GetFolderPath(System.Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal)
Has no content folder. Parent folder of ↑ has ‘cache, data and lib’ as a subfolder. Can’t find the content folder.

Thanks in advance.

Toemsel92 · October 2, 2016, 1:01pm

Checked the sourcecode of MonoGame and found the solution here

github.com

MonoGame/MonoGame/blob/d580ef8f4c330eceebd9e6e1e129e61cfdc0be15/MonoGame.Framework/TitleContainer.Android.cs

// MonoGame - Copyright (C) The MonoGame Team
// This file is subject to the terms and conditions defined in
// file 'LICENSE.txt', which is part of this source code package.

using System;
using System.IO;

namespace Microsoft.Xna.Framework
{
    partial class TitleContainer
    {
        private static Stream PlatformOpenStream(string safeName)
        {
            return Android.App.Application.Context.Assets.Open(safeName);
        }
    }
}

LEM · January 8, 2019, 8:39pm

Toemsel92, if you see this, I’m facing exactly the same problem.
How do you call that function from C# and what parameter you should pass to “safename”?

Hope you can see this! Thanks.

Toemsel · January 11, 2019, 9:36pm

Long time ago, but I managed to find the project. I used a .XML file to store all the asset locations. (I did write a program which writes all content files (with their location) into an XML. Thus, If I load the XML, I can read all existing files.

XmlReader xmlReader = XmlReader.Create(TitleContainer.OpenStream(@"Content/Data/Items/ItemDB.xml"));

LEM · January 15, 2019, 2:03pm

Thanks so much for replying, Toemsel! I’m sorry I forgot to update the thread, but I did find the solution which is basically what you posted. However, I ended up changing the way I load the assets, and now I only load what is needed. I’m sure your reply will help somebody else in the future.