android: how to load xml file from assets directory?

i succeded at loading and parsing my xml file from assets directory (assets/level/castle1.tmx)

here's what i did:

replaced this:

  XmlResourceParser xrp = ctx.getResources().getXml(ctx.getResources().getIdentifier(name, "xml", ctx.getPackageName()));

by this:

  InputStream istr = context.getAssets().open("level/"+name+".tmx");
  XmlPullParserFactory factory = XmlPullParserFactory.newInstance(); 
  factory.setNamespaceAware(true); 
  xrp = factory.newPullParser(); 
  xrp.setInput(istr, "UTF-8");  

then all i had to do was editing some getAttributeIntValue() lines:

  int a = xrp.getAttributeIntValue(null, "width",0));

into this:

  int a = Integer.parseInt(xrp.getAttributeValue(null, "width"));

and all the rest worked without modifications :) ..this class is for parsing tiled xml/map files to build my game levels. before, it worked using res/ but i wanted to try to put all my files into assets/ instead. so now it works :)

thanks for the help

In res/ folder all xml files are precompiled, whereas in assets/ folder they are not. So, you can't use openXmlResourceParser() with non-precompiled resources. Instead use open() and read file through InputStream.