Designate an arbitrary folder as Android assets?

It seems that the Android resource compiler does not take into account linked folders (in Eclipse sense) i开发者_高级运维n 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.

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.

Resolved via filsystem-level hardlinks.