Oct 28, 2011

Read raw resource of text

Read raw resource of text

Create a raw resource of text, /res/raw/mytext.txt.
Hello!

It's a example of raw text in 
/res/raw/mytext.txt

Some text here:
Android is an operating system for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. It is developed by the Open Handset Alliance led by Google.


Java main code:
package com.AndroidTextResource;

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class AndroidTextResourceActivity extends Activity {
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        //setContentView(R.layout.main);
        
        TextView myTextView = new TextView(this);
        setContentView(myTextView);
        

        InputStream inputStream = getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.mytext);
        
        ByteArrayOutputStream byteArrayOutputStream 
         = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        
        String myText = "";
        int in;
  try {
   in = inputStream.read();
   while (in != -1)
         {
    byteArrayOutputStream.write(in);
          in = inputStream.read();
         }
   inputStream.close();
   myText = byteArrayOutputStream.toString();
  }catch (IOException e) {
   // TODO Auto-generated catch block
   e.printStackTrace();
  }

        myTextView.setText(myText);
    }
}


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2 comments:

  1. hi there
    thank you for this code .... its the only 1 i could made it work (display txt file from raw folder)
    question:
    how to enable the scrollview .... my text file is long ....

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