Whenever I run my game using the DesktopLauncher I am able to find my files, but if I build an executable using Gradle I get an error that the files are not within the specified folder.
This may be linked to the fact that for some reason the assets I place into the Android project's asset folder, which is linked to my Desktop project, are being placed in the bin folder of my Desktop project. Currently to get around this I have a check that looks for whether I am executing as an Android game or Desktop (and applies a prefix accordingly, either "bin" or "").