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I want to Know the difference between Streaming assets folder and resources folder in Unity3d?

user44356
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    Possible duplicate of [Unity 3D: Asset Bundles vs. Resources folder vs www.Texture](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17423126/unity-3d-asset-bundles-vs-resources-folder-vs-www-texture) – joreldraw Aug 18 '17 at 06:30

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Want to extend answer by holo559.

Streaming Assets are just copied as files and can thus be accessed as such. Useful for including files like sqlite databases or other files you want to be able to use StreamReader on. They do not work on some platforms such as WebGL due to the web not having filesystem support. Can also be interchanged during runtime.

Resources are embedded into your program and are therefore platform independent. Useful for having example text files for configurations such as json or yml files.

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Streaming Assets : Any files placed in StreamingAssets are copied as it is to a particular folder on a target machine. Any asset placed inside StreamingAssets can be used while the application is running.

Resources : Resources class allows you to find and access Objects including assets. You can access assets using "Resources.Load" stored in Resources. All assets in the "Resources" folders will be included in a build. This resources folder comes handy when we have to access multiple assets, instead of using their path names we can use its reference.

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There are a few more differences worth mentioning:

1- Unity will include the dependencies of an asset when you put it in a Resources folder, Streaming Assets won't.

2- Using Resource API you can both load an asset and deserialize it. using Streaming Assets you have to do all file operations manually.

3- Resource API allows you to Unload unused assets.

4- Unity will try to create a lookup tree when your game launches, depending on the number of assets, this can take time.

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