Using JSON File in Android App Resources

Question

Suppose I have a file with JSON contents in the raw resources folder in my app. How can I read this into the app, so that I can parse the JSON?

Answer 1

Using:

String json_string = readRawResource(R.raw.json)

Functions:

public String readRawResource(@RawRes int res) {
    return readStream(context.getResources().openRawResource(res));
}

private String readStream(InputStream is) {
    Scanner s = new Scanner(is).useDelimiter("\\A");
    return s.hasNext() ? s.next() : "";
}