as android assets,android - Read Assets file as string - Stack Overflow

There is a little bug CommonsWare's code - newline characters are discarded and not added to the string. Here is some fixed code ready for copy+paste:

private String loadAssetTextAsString(Context context, String name) {

BufferedReader in = null;

try {

StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder();

InputStream is = context.getAssets().open(name);

in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));

String str;

boolean isFirst = true;

while ( (str = in.readLine()) != null ) {

if (isFirst)

isFirst = false;

else

buf.append('\n');

buf.append(str);

}

return buf.toString();

} catch (IOException e) {

Log.e(TAG, "Error opening asset " + name);

} finally {

if (in != null) {

try {

in.close();

} catch (IOException e) {

Log.e(TAG, "Error closing asset " + name);

}

}

}

return null;

}