In-app preview can't load images from a shared folder outside the project directory

[chokop11]

## Acode In-App Preview Can't Load Images from Outside Project Folder

### Environment
- App: Acode (Android)
- Feature: In-app Preview (▶️ run button)

### Folder Structure

Acode-Project/
├── Assets/
│ └── Image/
│ └── photo.jpg
└── Project/
└── Kartu/
└── index.html

### What I'm trying to do
I want to keep a single shared `Assets` folder at the root level, used by multiple project folders inside `Project/`, so I don't have to duplicate images into every new project.

### What I tried
1. **Relative path from `index.html`:**
   ```html
   <img src="../../Assets/Image/photo.jpg">

Result: Image does not load in Acode's in-app preview.

2. Absolute path from workspace root:

   <img src="/Assets/Image/photo.jpg">

   Result: Also does not load.

3. Opened the root folder (Acode-Project) as the workspace in Acode, not just the Kartu subfolder — still no luck.

4. Control test: Placed an image directly inside the same folder as index.html (e.g. Kartu/test.jpg) and used:

   <img src="test.jpg">

   Result: This works fine. So the image file itself is not corrupted, and the HTML/img tag syntax is correct.

5. Workaround that works: Running a local server via Termux and opening the site through that server — images load correctly. But this requires manually starting a server every time, which isn't practical for my workflow.

Conclusion so far

It seems like Acode's in-app live preview can only serve files that are inside (or at the same level as) the folder containing index.html, and cannot reach files outside that folder — even when a higher-level root folder is opened as the workspace.

Question

• Is this a known limitation of Acode's in-app preview server?
• Is there a setting to change the served root directory for preview?
• Is there any way to reference a shared assets folder across multiple project subfolders without duplicating files into each project, and without manually running a separate server each time?

Any guidance would be appreciated. Thanks!

[claycuy]

​I’ve seen this too, it’s not a configuration error on your side. It seems to be a security sandbox limitation where the preview server only looks within the current directory, so it can't reach files outside of it.

​Hopefully, the maintainers can look into supporting workspace-root serving in the future, as it would make managing projects with shared assets a lot easier.