How to speed up unzipping time in Java / Android?

Question

Unzipping files on android seems to be dreadfully slow. At first I thought this was just the emulator but it appears to be the same on the phone. I\'ve tried different compr

Answer 1

I don't know if unzipping on Android is slow, but copying byte for byte in a loop is surely slowing it down even more. Try using BufferedInputStream and BufferedOutputStream - it might be a bit more complicated, but in my experience it is worth it in the end.

BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(zin);
BufferedOutputStream out = new BufferedOutputStream(fout);

And then you can write with something like that:

byte b[] = new byte[1024];
int n;
while ((n = in.read(b,0,1024)) >= 0) {
  out.write(b,0,n);
}