Read file As String

Solution 1:

The code finally used is the following from:

http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/File-Input-Output/ConvertInputStreamtoString.htm

public static String convertStreamToString(InputStream is) throws Exception {
    BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    String line = null;
    while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
      sb.append(line).append("\n");
    }
    reader.close();
    return sb.toString();
}

public static String getStringFromFile (String filePath) throws Exception {
    File fl = new File(filePath);
    FileInputStream fin = new FileInputStream(fl);
    String ret = convertStreamToString(fin);
    //Make sure you close all streams.
    fin.close();        
    return ret;
}

Solution 2:

You can use org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils.toString(InputStream is, Charset chs) to do that.

e.g.

IOUtils.toString(context.getResources().openRawResource(<your_resource_id>), StandardCharsets.UTF_8)

For adding the correct library:

Add the following to your app/build.gradle file:

dependencies {
    compile 'org.apache.directory.studio:org.apache.commons.io:2.4'
}

• https://stackoverflow.com/a/33820307/1815624

or for the Maven repo see -> this link

For direct jar download see-> https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-io/download_io.cgi