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Mumfordwiz
Mumfordwiz

Reputation: 1555

How to read from a file in my application on android?

I created a file on my pc, and I want my app to read from it.

How do I read from that file in my app?

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 49

Answers (2)

Gevork Safaryan
Gevork Safaryan

Reputation: 237

Move your file to card and add path instead of "file.txt"

File sdcard = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();

//Get the text file
File file = new File(sdcard,"file.txt");

//Read text from file
StringBuilder text = new StringBuilder();

try {
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));
    String line;

        while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
            text.append(line);
            text.append('\n');
        }

    br.close();
    }catch (IOException e) {
//You'll need to add proper error handling here
}

//Find the view by its id
TextView tv = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.text_view);

//Set the text
tv.setText(text);

it example best if you want to read text

Upvotes: 0

CommonsWare
CommonsWare

Reputation: 1007584

Put the file in assets/ (e.g., app/src/main/assets/ in a typical Android Studio project). Then use open() on an AssetManager to get an InputStream on that content. You can get an AssetManager from your Activity or other Context by calling getAssets().

Upvotes: 3

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