Reading a simple text file

Place your text file in the /assets directory under the Android project. Use AssetManager class to access it.

AssetManager am = context.getAssets();
InputStream is = am.open("test.txt");

Or you can also put the file in the /res/raw directory, where the file will be indexed and is accessible by an id in the R file:

InputStream is = context.getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.test);

try this,

package example.txtRead;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import java.util.Vector;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class txtRead extends Activity {
    String labels="caption";
    String text="";
    String[] s;
    private Vector<String> wordss;
    int j=0;
    private StringTokenizer tokenizer;

    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
        wordss = new Vector<String>();
        TextView helloTxt = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.hellotxt);
        helloTxt.setText(readTxt());
 }

    private String readTxt(){

     InputStream inputStream = getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.toc);
//     InputStream inputStream = getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.internals);
     System.out.println(inputStream);
     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();
    }
}

This is how I do it:

public static String readFromAssets(Context context, String filename) throws IOException {
    BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(context.getAssets().open(filename)));

    // do reading, usually loop until end of file reading  
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    String mLine = reader.readLine();
    while (mLine != null) {
        sb.append(mLine); // process line
        mLine = reader.readLine();
    }
    reader.close();
    return sb.toString();
}

use it as follows:

readFromAssets(context,"test.txt")

Having a file in your assets folder requires you to use this piece of code in order to get files from the assets folder:

yourContext.getAssets().open("test.txt");

In this example, getAssets() returns an AssetManager instance and then you're free to use whatever method you want from the AssetManager API.

Reading a simple text file

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