How to get asset references in code?

Unity Engine
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So I just did the basic hello world on addressables and am able to load assets using asset references in the inspector.

I am wondering if there is a way to easily access these addressables through code without going through the inspector. Something like this:

AssetReference ar = AssetReferences.SOME_ADDRESSABLE;

Is there an architecture like this that is built in or easy to set up that can work in build?

2

How about using the name of the resource?

var resourceReference = new AssetReferenceT<Texture2D>("Assets/Textures/MyTexture.png");
3

We were hoping to avoid using naked strings or ints as they can be difficult to work with.

We ended up building a solution that would automatically generate an enum entry for every asset in a folder and then add them to a dictionary. That way all the asset have an easy human understandable and autocomplete friendly way to reference in code.

We also used an auto importer to automatically import the assets into the addressables groups.