Question

I am new in android development, and I’m trying to create a simple application which reads some data from a text file and displays it in a ListView. The problem is my reader doesn’t find my file. I’ve debugged my application and that is the conclusion I’ve come up with. So, where does the text file have to placed in order for the reader to find it?
Heres some code:

     try
    {
          FileInputStream fstream = new FileInputStream("movies.txt");
          DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(fstream);
          BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));

          String strLine;

          while ((strLine = br.readLine()) != null)
          {
              filme.add(strLine);
              Log.d(LOG_TAG,"movie name:" + strLine);
          }
          in.close();
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
                System.err.println("Error: " + e.getMessage());
    }

Thanks!

Answer 1

Put the file named movies.txt in res/raw, then use the following code

String displayText = "";
try {
InputStream fileStream = getResources().openRawResource(
                    R.raw.movies);
int fileLen = fileStream.available();
// Read the entire resource into a local byte buffer.
byte[] fileBuffer = new byte[fileLen];
fileStream.read(fileBuffer);
fileStream.close();
displayText = new String(fileBuffer);
} catch (IOException e) {
  // exception handling
}