Settings.json

[Xinoi]

the Game creates an extra assets folder in the already existing assets folder and saves the game files there (settings.json, GameData)

possible Solution: -> remove assets/ prefix from the Gdx.files.local paths | apparently doesn't work on Jans Pc -> maybe change .local to .internal

[Jan130]

This is interesting since on my PC it uses the files in the normal assets folder.

[Jan130]

Now I know why I used .local in the first place... When using .internal I get the error message "Cannot write to an internal file: assets\settings.json"

[Xinoi]

ok nice

[Xinoi]

so you can fix it ?

[Xinoi]

try changing it to ...files.internal("settings.json") and ...files.internal("GameData/...")

[Xinoi]

According to the [documentation of Libgdx FileHandle types](https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/wiki/File-handling#file-storage-types), the Local and Internal FileHandles use a different path under the hood:
 - The Internal FileHandle is relative to the assets directory on Android and has a fall back to the ClassPath FileHandle. It is always read-only!
 - The Local FileHandle is relative to the internal (private) App-Storage on Android. You can use this FileHandle to read and write.

So basicly it is not possible to write to a file in the internal stoarage, use the local storage instead.
As you want to "ship" this file with your application, you might want to copy it from internal to local storage when the app is started for the first time, so that the application has read and write access to it.

ok you have to use local

[Jan130]

Yeah but I don't understand why it creates a new folder on your PC...

[Xinoi]

i dont know either

[Jan130]

I tried it again and it works normally on my computer

[Xinoi]

well it works on mine with the extra folder so right now its not neccessary to change it. Mabye we can fix it in the end if we have time

[Jan130]

Yeah I also hope to be able to sync the GameData via a database later so we would only have to care about the settings. For those there would be another solution so I could change that later.

[Xinoi]

aight