How to read raw data from raw resource in android. In this tutorial i am using a text file as a raw resource in res/raw/wordslist.txt .This text file is read by the activity and you can use the data whatever way you like. for eg

You can display it in a list. or do any kind of searching or processing .

So first make the android project ,then copy the text file in the resource folder res/raw/wordslist.txt , this is the text file you want to read in the activity . see the sample code for MainActivity

package com.example.readtextfile;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.res.Resources;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.widget.ListView;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    ListView view;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        new Thread(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                try {
                    loadList();
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    throw new RuntimeException(e);
                }
            }
        }).start();

    }

    public void loadList()throws IOException
    {
        Log.d("TAG", "Loading words...");
        final Resources resources = this.getResources();
        InputStream inputStream = resources.openRawResource(R.raw.dic);
        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream));

        try {
            String line;
            int i=0;
            while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {

                if(line.startsWith("    "))
                {
                    System.out.println("four letter ::"+line.substring(3, 8));

                }
                else
                {
                    System.out.println("three letter ::"+line.substring(0,4));
                }
            }
        } finally {
            reader.close();
        }
        Log.d("TAG", "DONE loading words.");
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
        return true;
    }

}