The mechanism in Jetbrains components resources. I...

# compose

[Joel Denke]

The mechanism in Jetbrains components resources. It looks like they use some kind of ResourceLoader between iOS and Android.
For iOS using NsBundle, like: NSBundle.mainBundle.resourcePath
But for Android it feels like they using reflections through Java resources instead. But I dont follow, if I want to have same path they using, same parent folder to inject into same resource sharing but my own way, how do I do that? Like if I put a video file in shared module, that will be copied into iOS bundle and for Android/JVM it will be resources folder I think. Just not entirely sure how to fetch it the same way on all platforms 😄
Maybe there is some raw reference I can use, to ONLY get the path?
In my case I need NSUrl on iOS and on Android Uri because framework I use require so.
On iOS I think its:

NSURL.fileURLWithPath(NSBundle.mainBundle.resourcePath + "/compose-resources/" + path)

Where path is relative path from the shared resources folder.

Source code for Android is:

@ExperimentalResourceApi
actual fun resource(path: String): Resource = AndroidResourceImpl(path)

@ExperimentalResourceApi
private class AndroidResourceImpl(path: String) : AbstractResourceImpl(path) {
    override suspend fun readBytes(): ByteArray {
        val classLoader = Thread.currentThread().contextClassLoader ?: (::AndroidResourceImpl.javaClass.classLoader)
        val resource = classLoader.getResourceAsStream(path)
        if (resource != null) {
            return resource.readBytes()
        } else {
            throw MissingResourceException(path)
        }
    }
}

But I want to get the path and not the bytes 😄

[Mark Murphy]

There is no filesystem path to a resource on Android. It is not a file on the filesystem.

There is the ill-used android.resource scheme you can use for a Uri, and it is just based off of the resource identifier.

[Joel Denke]

There is path relative to the apk root. So Yeah can use it. Solved it by copy video in shared resources as raw type into Android resources from jetbrains resources. Regular path seemed non accessible for media it seems. And then used getResourceIdentifier + android.resources. thanks!