Designate an arbitrary folder as Android assets?

Question

It seems that the Android resource compiler does not take into account linked folders (in Eclipse sense) in the assets folder. Question - is there a way to forcibly designate a folder of my choice as Android project assets?

Short of copying or hardlinking into project assets, I mean.

Answer 1

Question - is there a way to forcibly designate a folder of my choice as Android project assets?

The aapt command takes an -A switch ("additional directory in which to find raw asset files"). How you customize Eclipse's calls to aapt to use this switch is beyond my expertise.