assets other than fonts are not being linked

[danikenan]

Only font assets are collected and linked using react-native link. All other files are ignored.

"rnpm": {
  "assets": [
     "./someDir",
    "./anotherDir"
  ]
}

The other files can be in the same directory as the fonts or other directory.

[BaluRaut-oabstudios]

Can you give list of file names you are saying ignoring.

[hramos]

Hey, thanks for reporting this issue!

It looks like your description is missing some necessary information. Can you please add all the details specified in the template? This is necessary for people to be able to understand and reproduce the issue being reported.

I am going to close this, but feel free to open a new issue with the additional information provided. Thanks!

[tslater]

@hramos It isn't clear that the link command only handles font files in terms of copying assets, but that is the case. I wanted to copy some xml files, but they were only copied when I changed the extension to ".otf" it copied. I finally found it in the source:

react-native/local-cli/link/android/copyAssets.js

Line 18 in 1673c57

* - Fonts (otf, ttf) - copied to targetPath/fonts under original name

I think that is misleading to call them assets...it should probably either be expanded to arbitrary files, or use the name "fonts" or "font files". Something like that. Should I follow the template and open a new issue?