How can the raw assets be accessed programmatically in MAUI?

[arivoir]

I'm developing a control that is rendered based on the content of a file provided by a customer.
The file would be provided as a raw asset in the application.
How can a raw asset be accessed from a control programmatically?

[shv07]

Any update on this? The only option I was able to find was to read the raw asset using just its filename (with Microsoft.Maui.Storage.FileSystem.OpenAppPackageFileAsync(string filename)). But what if I need the path to the file to pass it to another service?

[ifitllc]

I added a json file foo.json into Resources\Raw, while debugging on Android device:

await  FileSystem.Current.OpenAppPackageFileAsync("foo.json")

reported file not found error. I checked the apk file, foo.json is already packaged into the assets folder.

[MartyIX]

I'm not too sure why only async methods are exposed and not sync ones (i'm willing to a wait a bit).

[MartyIX]

It's likely because UWP https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.windowsruntimestorageextensions?view=dotnet-uwp-10.0 supports only async method for manipulating files (AFAIK).