Question

First, lemme show my string that populates a listview:

static final String[] title = new String[] {
    "Temaki Sushi", "Oyakodon", "Okonomiyaki", "Tofu Dango", "Oden",
    "Nikujaga", "Yellowtail Teriyaki", "Tendon", "Tonjiru", "Sukiyaki",
    };

Now, the question is, instead of hardcoding those items, is there any way to reference the items to an external text file in the res/raw folder? Lets say I have a text file titled titles.txt in raw folder.

Answer 1

yes, you can do it

you should read the text like this

private String readTitlesRaw(){
    InputStream stream = Context.getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.titles))

    Writer writer = new StringWriter();
    char[] buffer = new char[10240];
    try {
        Reader reader = new BufferedReader(
        new InputStreamReader(stream, "UTF-8"));
        int n;
        while ((n = reader.read(buffer)) != -1) {
            writer.write(buffer, 0, n);
        }
    } finally {
        stream.close();
    }
    return writer.toString();
}

and then split it to array as you like, some thing like this should work

String[] titles=readTitlesRaw().split("SPLITER");

when your write SPLITER between each title