Read Text From the Raw Content in Resource Folder.

You can store the raw content in the raw folder and read using the below method..

1. Create a file in and Raw content

2. Create Method called readTextResource() in the util class

3. Use the below code to read the data

StringBuffer strBuffer = new StringBuffer();

InputStream inputStream = null;

try {

inputStream = owner.getResources().openRawResource(resourceId);

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream));

String str = br.readLine();

while (str != null) {

strBuffer.append(str);

str = br.readLine();

}

} catch (IOException e) {

} finally {

try {

if (inputStream != null) {

inputStream.close();

}

} catch (IOException e) {

}

}

4. Return the StringBuffer value.

5. If you need a html format, you can use the html util class

Html.fromHtml(text); - It returns Spanned instance.

Sample Code

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public class MainActivity extends Activity {

private Spanned mText = null;

private TextView mTextView;

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

setContentView(R.layout.main);

mTextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.sampleText);

if (mText == null) {

String text = readTextResource(R.raw.license, this);

mText = Html.fromHtml(text);

}

mTextView.setText(mText);

}

public String readTextResource(int resourceId, Activity owner) {

StringBuffer strBuffer = new StringBuffer();

InputStream inputStream = null;

try {

inputStream = owner.getResources().openRawResource(resourceId);

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream));

String str = br.readLine();

while (str != null) {

strBuffer.append(str);

str = br.readLine();

}

} catch (IOException e) {

} finally {

try {

if (inputStream != null) {

inputStream.close();

}

} catch (IOException e) {

}

}

return strBuffer.toString();

}

}