title: Why isn't my assets folder being installed on emulator?
body: <p>Where are my assets being installed to?</p>
  
  <p>I utilize an assets folder in my new app. I have two files in the folder. When I install my app on the emulator, I cannot access my assets, and furthermore I cannot see them on the emulator filesystem. </p>
  
  <p>Extracted my apk and confirmed the assets folder exists:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ ls -ltr assets/
  total 16
  -rw-rw-r--. 1 brad brad 1050 2010-05-20 00:33 schema-DashDB.sql
  -rw-rw-r--. 1 brad brad 9216 2010-05-20 00:33 dash.db
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>On the emulator, no assets folder: </p>
  
  <pre><code># pwd
  /data/data/com.gtosoft.dash
  # ls -l
  drwxr-xr-x system   system            2010-05-20 00:46 lib
  # 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I just want to package a pre-built database with my app and then open it to obtain data when needed. </p>
  
  <p>Just tried it on my Moto Droid, unable to access/open the DB, just like the emulator:</p>
  
  <pre><code>DBFile=/data/data/com.gtosoft.dash/assets/dash.db
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Building the DB on the fly from a schema file is out of the question because its such a slow process (about 5-10 statements per second is all I get for throughput).</p>