Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 2nd Edition

Getting at Assets

BeatBox will end up doing a lot of work related to asset management: finding assets, keeping track of them, and eventually playing them as sounds. To manage all this, create a new class called BeatBox in com.bignerdranch.android.beatbox. Go ahead and add a couple of constants: one for logging and one to remember which folder you saved your wrestling grunts in.

Listing 18.8  New BeatBox class (BeatBox.java)

public class BeatBox {
  private static final String TAG = "BeatBox";

  private static final String SOUNDS_FOLDER = "sample_sounds";
}

Assets are accessed using the AssetManager class. You can get an AssetManager from any Context. Since BeatBox will need one, give it a constructor that takes in a Context