title: How to get the path to the Android assets folder in the application package
body: <p>I have a whole folder structure that I want to copy from my assets folder.  However, the mContext.getAssets().open() seems  to only want a filename so that it can return an InputStream, which is only suitable for copying a single file.  What I need is a File made from the folder in my assets folder so that I can recurse through all the files and folders and copy them all.</p>
  
  <p>Does anybody know how to get the path to the assets folder so that I can create a File object?</p>
  
  <p>Edit: After some study it appears that you can't access files in the assets/ and raw/ folders with absolute paths to be able to create a File object.  It probably has to do with the encryption of the app package.  I hope someone can prove me wrong though!</p>
  
  <p>Final edit:  I ended up creating an array of strings to hold the extra asset files:</p>
  
  <pre><code>   private static final String[] DEFAULT_ALBUM_FILES =
     {INTRO_TO_FLASHUM_DIR+"03 Never Can Say Goodbye.m4a",
      INTRO_TO_FLASHUM_DIR+"11 Bossa Baroque.m4a",
      INTRO_TO_FLASHUM_DIR+"intro fling.3gp"};
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I then iterated through this copying each file individually using the mContext.getAssets().open() to get the InputStream.  I don't think it is currently possible to iterate through a folder in the assets using normal File operations.</p>