Read Assets file as string

Question

I would like to read the content of a file located in the Assets as a String. For example, a text document located in src/main/assets/

Original

Answer 1

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;
    }