[RELEASED] [Free] Better Streaming Assets

Errrrr there's no

BetterStreamingAssets.GetFilesAsync

. Also, direct synchronous access to streaming assets is impossible on webgl.

EDIT: It would be possible if you were willing to download all the streaming assets prior to using them, which in my opinion is not worth it.

 

I have a project where there is HTML pages being shown within Unity. Those HTML pages load image/css/js/etc.

So I could use BetterStreamingAssets to grab the main html page but then the rest will fail because the html page will be pointing to assets that are still in the android jar://

My current thought is to grab everything and put it into persistent data. Is there a way to do that using BetterStreamingAssets rather than www/asset bundles? Basically grab everything from the jar and move it over to persistentPath?

 

It can easily be done with BSA and will certainly be a lot faster than alternatives. The easiest way is to use

BetterStreamingAssets.ReadAllBytes

and then

File.WriteAllBytes

, but using a combination of

BetterStreamingAssets.OpenRead

,

File.Create

and

Stream.CopyTo

should be better when it comes to memory allocation.

To list Streaming Assets use

BetterStreamingAssets.GetFiles

.

 

Wow, thanks for the super quick and helpful response. Greatly appreciate it.

 

Hi I am trying to open local files in Android. I was wondering how I can use your plugin to do it?

Code (CSharp):

1.     private void Awake()
2.     {
3.        
4.         BetterStreamingAssets.Initialize();
5.     }
6.  
7.     public void Open_PDF()
8.     {
9.         var paths = BetterStreamingAssets.GetFiles("/", "documentation.pdf", SearchOption.AllDirectories);
10.        
11.  
12.     }

 

Does not work in edit mode.

 

@thexdd Make sure

BetterStreamingAssets.Initialize();

is called before any other call.

@zz00 BSA works with StreamingAssets only, not local Android files.

 

Why is it that the root directory in streaming assets has spaces but packaged up in the .apk the spaces are gone?
Does that mean I should rename the folder with no spaces?

 

@nonlin Can you elaborate and give an example, please?

 

hello, awesome plugin wwhat ive readed so far, I have a questionm there is any way you can read how many folders there are in certain place?

 

@RS_Pereira_Ryu The reason there's no

GetDirectories 

is that behaviour for empty folders varies from platform to platform. For instance, Windows builds preserve empty folders, while Android builds do not.

You can however get a list of non-empty folders yourself by parsing the output of

GetFiles

- any part ending with "/" and shared between two or more entries will effectively be a non-empty folder. Hope this helps!

 

hello! thanks for the fast reply! I didn't expect this to keep giving support to people, I made it work with the example you gave me thanks so much!!
hope someday become as good developer as you and create great stuff ^.^

 

Awww thanks man, I am merely repaying for all the free help I've received myself over the years. Good luck and happy coding!