Question

When creating an Android application, I have some files that needs to be stored on the android itself.

How do I do this?

Answer 1

Best place for generic files would be the assets folder.

You can access files through the AssetManager, which you can get with Activity.getAssets() for example.

Here is an example how you could access a text file:

try {
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(
        new InputStreamReader(getAssets().open("sometextfile.txt")));

        // do stuff with br
} catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
}

For more information on AssetManager read the Java Doc. Oh and yes, you can create folders in assets.