How to reference a File in raw folder in Android

Question

I just want to create a File object like this

File myImageFile = new File ("image1") ;

but it is giving me exception of FileNotFoundException
How can i reference a file inside my raw Folder

EDIT: Actually i wanted to do something like this

MultipartEntity multipartEntity= new MultipartEntity(HttpMultipartMode.BROWSER_COMPATIBLE); multipartEntity.addPart("uploaded", new FileBody(new File("myimage")));

Answer 1

You can open it as InputStream, I don't know if possible as a file:

int rid = resources.getIdentifier(packageName + ":raw/" + fileName, null, null);  
//get the file as a stream  
InputStrea is = resources.openRawResource(rid);