Where to place the 'assets' folder in Android Studio?

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I am confused about the
assets folder. It doesn't come auto-created in Android Studio,
and almost all the forums in which this is discussed talk about
Eclipse.

How can the Assets directory
be configured in Android Studio?

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Since
Android Studio uses href="http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/user-guide">the new
Gradle-based build system, you should be href="http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/user-guide#TOC-Project-Structure">putting
assets/ inside of the source sets (e.g.,
src/main/assets/).

In a
typical Android Studio project, you will have an app/ module,
with a main/ sourceset (app/src/main/
off of the project root), and so your primary assets would go in
app/src/main/assets/.
However:

• If you
  need assets specific to a build, such as debug versus
  release, you can create sourcesets for those roles (e.g,.
  app/src/release/assets/)




• Your
  product flavors can also have sourcesets with assets (e.g.,
  app/src/googleplay/assets/)




• Your
  instrumentation tests can have an androidTest sourceset with
  custom assets (e.g., app/src/androidTest/assets/), though be
  sure to ask the InstrumentationRegistry for
  getContext(), not getTargetContext(),
  to access those
  assets

Also,
a quick reminder: assets are read-only at runtime. Use href="https://commonsware.com/blog/2014/04/07/storage-situation-internal-storage.html">internal
storage, href="https://commonsware.com/blog/2014/04/08/storage-situation-external-storage.html">external
storage, or href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/document-provider.html">the
Storage Access Framework for read/write content.