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

For the More Curious: Non-Assets?

AssetManager has methods called openNonAssetFd(…). You might reasonably ask why a class dedicated to assets would concern itself with non-assets. We might reasonably answer, “These aren’t the droids you’re looking for,” so that you might go on believing that you never heard of openNonAssetFd(…) in the first place.

There is no reason that we know of to ever use this method, so there is no real reason to learn about it.

You did buy our book, though. So we might as well throw this answer out there for fun:

Remember that earlier we said that Android has two systems, assets and resources? Well, the resources system has a nice big lookup system. But some big resources are too big to fit inside that ...