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wbb

Reputation: 266

Android 3.x+ Java ZipFile Class - Can't read ZipEntries from big files

If I open a big zip file (250MB) via the ZipFile class and try to read the entries. This works fine on 2.x in the emulator and real hardware. If I use the exact some code on my tablet (Asus Transformer running 4.0.3) or the emulator (3.2), I can't read any entries. The size() function of the ZipFile class always returns zero and the ZipFile does not return any zip entries. Even the a zip app that comes with the ROM on my tablet can't read any entries. The zip file is not damaged. I checked it.

The code to read from ZipFile works fine on all version with smaller zip files. What has changed between 2.x and 3.x/4.x??

My Testfile is the C64Music.zip from the HighVoltage Sid Collection. It contains over 40.000 files and is around 250MB.

I have no clue where to look at.

Upvotes: 22

Views: 859

Answers (3)

Luke Sleeman
Luke Sleeman

Reputation: 1646

This is a known issue with the android ZipFile implementation:

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=23207

Basically zip files only support up to 65k entries. There is an extended version of the zip file format called Zip64, which supports a larger number of entries. Unfortunately ZipFile on android cannot read Zip64. You will probably find that the C64Music.zip file is in the Zip64 format

A work around is to use the Apache Commons Compress library instead of the native implementation. Their version of ZipFile supports Zip64: http://commons.apache.org/compress/apidocs/org/apache/commons/compress/archivers/zip/ZipFile.html

Upvotes: 2

Alex Lockwood
Alex Lockwood

Reputation: 83313

A lot of changes were made in 3.x/4.x to prevent abuse against the UI thread. Therefore, it is possible that your app is crashing because you are not offloading the expensive disk I/O operation to a separate Thread.

Upvotes: 0

vikas
vikas

Reputation: 139

    public class Compress { 

  private static final int BUFFER = 2048;  
  private String[] _files; 
  private String _zipFile;  
  public Compress(String[] files, String zipFile) { 
    _files = files; 
    _zipFile = zipFile; 
  }  
  public void zip() { 
    try  { 
      BufferedInputStream origin = null; 
      FileOutputStream dest = new FileOutputStream(_zipFile);  
      ZipOutputStream out = new ZipOutputStream(new BufferedOutputStream(dest)); 
      byte data[] = new byte[BUFFER]; 
      for(int i=0; i < _files.length; i++) { 
        Log.v("Compress", "Adding: " + _files[i]); 
        FileInputStream fi = new FileInputStream(_files[i]); 
        origin = new BufferedInputStream(fi, BUFFER); 
        ZipEntry entry = new ZipEntry(_files[i].substring(_files[i].lastIndexOf("/") + 1)); 
        out.putNextEntry(entry); 
        int count; 
        while ((count = origin.read(data, 0, BUFFER)) != -1) { 
          out.write(data, 0, count); 
        } 
        origin.close(); 
      } 

      out.close(); 
    } catch(Exception e) { 
      e.printStackTrace(); 
    } 

  } 

}

Call Compress like given below where you want to zip a file  :----

String zipFilePath = "fileName.zip";
File zipFile = new File(zipFilePath);
String[] files = new String[] {"/sdcard/fileName"};
if(!zipFile.exists()){
    new Compress(files, zipFilePath).zip();
   }

Upvotes: 0

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