To incorporate the contents of a .zip file seamlessly into our filesystem, we need to read the archive contents and be able to access each file individually. Since we are developing our own file I/O library, we use the iIStream interface to access .zip files. The NDK provides a way to read the .apk assets from your C++ application (see usr/include/android/asset_manager.h in your NDK folder). However, it is only available on Android 2.3, and will make debugging of file access in your game more complex on a desktop computer without an emulator. To make our native code portable to previous Android versions and other mobile operating systems, we will craft our own assets reader.
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