There are two ways to do it, both mentioned under "Porting an Existing Qt Application" on Qt 5.1 Documentation For Android.
- Bundle them into a qrc file (works cross platform)
- Add them to the "assets:" directory (Android specific)
For #2:
The "assets" directory will be created when you build the project. I have found it easiest to use the "INSTALLS" qmake variable to copy the files into the directory before it is packaged into an apk. The following is from a qmake file for a project I made. Note that for INSTALLS, the path to assets reads "/assets", not "assets" as you would expect. (It actually ends up in a subdirectory of the Android build workspace.)
To access the directory from the code in android, you use "assets:". (In the example, /assets/Samples
==> assets:/Samples
.)
# - setup the correct location to install to and load from
android {
# android platform
# From: http://community.kde.org/Necessitas/Assets
SAMPLES_INSTALL_PATH=/assets/Samples
} else {
# other platforms
SAMPLES_INSTALL_PATH=$$OUT_PWD/Samples
}
# - setup the 'make install' step
samples.path = $$SAMPLES_INSTALL_PATH
samples.files += $$SAMPLE_FILES
samples.depends += FORCE
INSTALLS += samples