Question

I’m trying to load a text file from res/raw. I’ve looked at several code snippets and tried implementing a few ways but none seem to work for me. The code I currently am trying to get to work is this

TextView helloTxt = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.hellotxt);
        helloTxt.setText(readTxt());
    }

    private String readTxt() {

     InputStream inputStream = getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.hello);

     ByteArrayOutputStream byteArrayOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

     int i;
     try {
         i = inputStream.read();
         while (i != -1) {
             byteArrayOutputStream.write(i);
             i = inputStream.read();
         }
         inputStream.close();
     }
     catch (IOException e) {
         // TODO Auto-generated catch block
         e.printStackTrace();
     }

     return byteArrayOutputStream.toString();

But it suffers from te same problem as all the others do.

a) (TextView)findViewById(R.id.hellotxt); says it depreciated and Eclipses recommends Migrating code.

b) getResources() isn’t recognized and just suggests I add a method called getResources().

Initially I wanted to use assets folder but got the same error as b) but with getAssets().

This is a seperate class file I’m implementing this is called public class PassGen{} with one method at the moment called public String returnPass(){}

Answer 1

The functions getAssets and getResources should be called from a Context.

If you call it from within an Activity class it doesn’t need a prefix, but otherwise you’d need to pass the context to the class that needs the functions and call e.g. context.getAssets().