Thursday, September 20, 2012

Android: Issue In loading MP3 files, which Saved by Same Application

We had to list down and play some bundled MP3 files from our android application. We added a zip file with proper folder structure inside assert. Application will extract that into /data/data/{package name}/files/  folder on loading and make use of this.
In this both Media Metadata Retriever or Media Player  API didn't work if we use direct file-name or URI.
First I was thinking the issue in permission of the written file, I manage to write files with the permission -rw-rw-rw but that was not enough. Issue was with owner. Those written files owner and group as same as the application not root or etc.
I couldn't find a API to change the owner of a file.But lucky, Media Metadata Retriever and Media Player API could accept File Descriptor, So We had to use FileInputStream to get The File Descriptor and pass it to tose APIs.

2 comments:

vamsi krishna said...

a quick question -
after adding/writing the files, did you add the file to the mediascanner? or scan the system?

Sudar Nimalan said...

No we didn't add.