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)

p​u​b​l​i​c​ ​c​l​a​s​s​ ​B​e​a​t​B​o​x​ ​{​
 ​ ​p​r​i​v​a​t​e​ ​s​t​a​t​i​c​ ​f​i​n​a​l​ ​S​t​r​i​n​g​ ​T​A​G​ ​=​ ​"​B​e​a​t​B​o​x​"​;​

 ​ ​p​r​i​v​a​t​e​ ​s​t​a​t​i​c​ ​f​i​n​a​l​ ​S​t​r​i​n​g​ ​S​O​U​N​D​S​_​F​O​L​D​E​R​ ​=​ ​"​s​a​m​p​l​e​_​s​o​u​n​d​s​"​;​
}​

Assets are accessed using the AssetManager ...