Android – Read file from Assets

First of all, let me give you a link: AssetManager, through this class we can easily access any files lying inside the Assets directory of android application. (or any sub-folders inside the Assets directory).

Now, we can have an object of AssetManager class by using getAssets() method:

AssetManager assetManager = getAssets();  

And the rest of the procedure i have given and described by making comments in the example so now go through the full solutions provided below with the output snap.

Output:

Solution:

ReadFileAssetsActivity.java

package com.paresh.readfileasset;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.res.AssetManager;
import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.TextView;

/**
 * @author Paresh N. Mayani
 * @Website http://www.technotalkative.com
 */
public class ReadFileAssetsActivity extends Activity {

 /** Called when the activity is first created. */

 @Override
 public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

  super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
  setContentView(R.layout.main);

  TextView txtContent = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.txtContent);
  TextView txtFileName = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.txtFileName);
  ImageView imgAssets = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.imgAssets);

  AssetManager assetManager = getAssets();

  // To get names of all files inside the "Files" folder
  try {
   String[] files = assetManager.list("Files");

   for(int i=0; i<files.length; i++)="" {="" txtfilename.append("\n="" file="" :"+i+"="" name=""> "+files[i]);
   }
  } catch (IOException e1) {
   // TODO Auto-generated catch block
   e1.printStackTrace();
  }

  // To load text file
        InputStream input;
  try {
   input = assetManager.open("helloworld.txt");

          int size = input.available();
          byte[] buffer = new byte[size];
          input.read(buffer);
          input.close();

          // byte buffer into a string
          String text = new String(buffer);

          txtContent.setText(text);
  } catch (IOException e) {
   // TODO Auto-generated catch block
   e.printStackTrace();
  }

  // To load image
     try {
      // get input stream
      InputStream ims = assetManager.open("android_logo_small.jpg");

      // create drawable from stream
      Drawable d = Drawable.createFromStream(ims, null);

      // set the drawable to imageview
      imgAssets.setImageDrawable(d);
     }
     catch(IOException ex) {
      return;
     }
 }
}
</files.length;>

main.xml
Note: Please consider scrollview as ScrollView, textview as TextView….etc. Its just problem inside the code plugin.

<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?-->

<scrollview xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent">

<linearlayout android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:orientation="vertical">

    <textview android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="@string/hello" android:id="@+id/txtContent">

 <imageview android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:id="@+id/imgAssets">

  <textview android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:id="@+id/txtFileName">
</textview></imageview></textview></linearlayout>

</scrollview>

Download Full source code from here: Android – Read file from Assets

Reference: Android – Read file from Assets from our JCG partner Paresh N. Mayani at the TechnoTalkative blog.