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Asked: 2026-06-01T10:35:41+00:00

I am developing an android app using code from a normal java application. In

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I am developing an android app using code from a normal java application.
In this java application i am parsing an XML file which i get like this:

File xmlFile = new File("../project/src/resources/words.xml");

Now in android this doesn’t seem to work. I get a file not found exception.
I tried to save the file in the res/xml directory but I’m not sure how to get to it.

Can i use the same code to parse the XML as I used for my java application or is there a special way to parse XML files in android?

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  1. Editorial Team

    What is ../project/src/resources.words.xml? Is that a pathname in your project directory on your development machine? Of course an Android program is not going to have access to file paths defined on your machine.

    If words.xml is a static file that you’d like access to, you should include it in the /res/raw subdirectory of your project. Then you can access it using the methods described in the documentation here:

    http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/Resources.html#openRawResource(int)

    Or, you can put it in /assets and use this method:

    http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/AssetManager.html

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