Native Development

[punto]

Hi.. Is there APIs to access bar-descriptor.xml? I'd like to add some parameters for my app. Is the file included in the final .bar?

Thanks.

[rcmaniac25]

No, an application's directory is read-only. You can't edit the bar-descriptor.xml after exporting a release bar and installing it on a device.

[punto]

Hi thanks for the reply. I actually only need to read the bar-descriptor.xml file, to retrieve parameters that are added from the IDE or whatever they use. So it's probably not even a filesystem read, just access to wherever the data is stored (since I assume the file is read anyways when the app starts). I'm wondering if there's APIs to read those values without having to roll my own xml parser.

[mobile1up]

use POSIX file API's and libxml2 (included in NDK)

the bar-descriptor.xml file is located within the application sandbox at:

$cwd/app/native/bar-descriptor.xml

where $cwd is the current working directory - you can use the function "getcwd()" for that.

you will need to link against libxml2 - then you should have everything you need