diff --git a/minui/include/private/resources.h b/minui/include/private/resources.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2a83a10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/minui/include/private/resources.h
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2018 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+#include <memory>
+#include <string>
+
+#include <png.h>
+
+// This class handles the PNG file parsing. It also holds the ownership of the PNG pointer and the
+// opened file pointer. Both will be destroyed / closed when this object goes out of scope.
+class PngHandler {
+ public:
+  // Constructs an instance by loading the PNG file from '/res/images/<name>.png', or '<name>'.
+  PngHandler(const std::string& name);
+
+  ~PngHandler();
+
+  png_uint_32 width() const {
+    return width_;
+  }
+
+  png_uint_32 height() const {
+    return height_;
+  }
+
+  png_byte channels() const {
+    return channels_;
+  }
+
+  int bit_depth() const {
+    return bit_depth_;
+  }
+
+  int color_type() const {
+    return color_type_;
+  }
+
+  png_structp png_ptr() const {
+    return png_ptr_;
+  }
+
+  png_infop info_ptr() const {
+    return info_ptr_;
+  }
+
+  int error_code() const {
+    return error_code_;
+  };
+
+  operator bool() const {
+    return error_code_ == 0;
+  }
+
+ private:
+  png_structp png_ptr_{ nullptr };
+  png_infop info_ptr_{ nullptr };
+  png_uint_32 width_;
+  png_uint_32 height_;
+  png_byte channels_;
+  int bit_depth_;
+  int color_type_;
+
+  // The |error_code_| is set to a negative value if an error occurs when opening the png file.
+  int error_code_{ 0 };
+  // After initialization, we'll keep the file pointer open before destruction of PngHandler.
+  std::unique_ptr<FILE, decltype(&fclose)> png_fp_{ nullptr, fclose };
+};
diff --git a/minui/resources.cpp b/minui/resources.cpp
index 52ab60b..9f67cf8 100644
--- a/minui/resources.cpp
+++ b/minui/resources.cpp
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
  * limitations under the License.
  */
 
+#include "private/resources.h"
+
 #include <fcntl.h>
 #include <linux/fb.h>
 #include <linux/kd.h>
@@ -48,58 +50,13 @@
     return surface;
 }
 
-// This class handles the png file parsing. It also holds the ownership of the png pointer and the
-// opened file pointer. Both will be destroyed/closed when this object goes out of scope.
-class PngHandler {
- public:
-  PngHandler(const std::string& name);
-
-  ~PngHandler();
-
-  png_uint_32 width() const {
-    return width_;
-  }
-
-  png_uint_32 height() const {
-    return height_;
-  }
-
-  png_byte channels() const {
-    return channels_;
-  }
-
-  png_structp png_ptr() const {
-    return png_ptr_;
-  }
-
-  png_infop info_ptr() const {
-    return info_ptr_;
-  }
-
-  int error_code() const {
-    return error_code_;
-  };
-
-  operator bool() const {
-    return error_code_ == 0;
-  }
-
- private:
-  png_structp png_ptr_{ nullptr };
-  png_infop info_ptr_{ nullptr };
-  png_uint_32 width_;
-  png_uint_32 height_;
-  png_byte channels_;
-
-  // The |error_code_| is set to a negative value if an error occurs when opening the png file.
-  int error_code_;
-  // After initialization, we'll keep the file pointer open before destruction of PngHandler.
-  std::unique_ptr<FILE, decltype(&fclose)> png_fp_;
-};
-
-PngHandler::PngHandler(const std::string& name) : error_code_(0), png_fp_(nullptr, fclose) {
+PngHandler::PngHandler(const std::string& name) {
   std::string res_path = android::base::StringPrintf("/res/images/%s.png", name.c_str());
   png_fp_.reset(fopen(res_path.c_str(), "rbe"));
+  // Try to read from |name| if the resource path does not work.
+  if (!png_fp_) {
+    png_fp_.reset(fopen(name.c_str(), "rbe"));
+  }
   if (!png_fp_) {
     error_code_ = -1;
     return;
@@ -138,19 +95,17 @@
   png_set_sig_bytes(png_ptr_, sizeof(header));
   png_read_info(png_ptr_, info_ptr_);
 
-  int color_type;
-  int bit_depth;
-  png_get_IHDR(png_ptr_, info_ptr_, &width_, &height_, &bit_depth, &color_type, nullptr, nullptr,
+  png_get_IHDR(png_ptr_, info_ptr_, &width_, &height_, &bit_depth_, &color_type_, nullptr, nullptr,
                nullptr);
 
   channels_ = png_get_channels(png_ptr_, info_ptr_);
 
-  if (bit_depth == 8 && channels_ == 3 && color_type == PNG_COLOR_TYPE_RGB) {
+  if (bit_depth_ == 8 && channels_ == 3 && color_type_ == PNG_COLOR_TYPE_RGB) {
     // 8-bit RGB images: great, nothing to do.
-  } else if (bit_depth <= 8 && channels_ == 1 && color_type == PNG_COLOR_TYPE_GRAY) {
+  } else if (bit_depth_ <= 8 && channels_ == 1 && color_type_ == PNG_COLOR_TYPE_GRAY) {
     // 1-, 2-, 4-, or 8-bit gray images: expand to 8-bit gray.
     png_set_expand_gray_1_2_4_to_8(png_ptr_);
-  } else if (bit_depth <= 8 && channels_ == 1 && color_type == PNG_COLOR_TYPE_PALETTE) {
+  } else if (bit_depth_ <= 8 && channels_ == 1 && color_type_ == PNG_COLOR_TYPE_PALETTE) {
     // paletted images: expand to 8-bit RGB.  Note that we DON'T
     // currently expand the tRNS chunk (if any) to an alpha
     // channel, because minui doesn't support alpha channels in
@@ -158,8 +113,8 @@
     png_set_palette_to_rgb(png_ptr_);
     channels_ = 3;
   } else {
-    fprintf(stderr, "minui doesn't support PNG depth %d channels %d color_type %d\n", bit_depth,
-            channels_, color_type);
+    fprintf(stderr, "minui doesn't support PNG depth %d channels %d color_type %d\n", bit_depth_,
+            channels_, color_type_);
     error_code_ = -7;
   }
 }