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/

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Answer 1

hi this is in my opinion the cleanest approach:

  public static String loadTextFromAssets(Context context, String assetsPath, Charset charset) throws IOException {
        InputStream is = context.getResources().getAssets().open(assetsPath);
        byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
        ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        for (int length = is.read(buffer); length != -1; length = is.read(buffer)) {
            baos.write(buffer, 0, length);
        }
        is.close();
        baos.close();
        return charset == null ? new String(baos.toByteArray()) : new String(baos.toByteArray(), charset);
    }

because readers could get trouble with line breaks.