How to unzip files programmatically in Android?

Question

I need a small code snippet which unzips a few files from a given .zip file and gives the separate files according to the format they were in the zipped file. Please post your knowledge and help me out.

Answer 1

This is my unzip method, which I use:

private boolean unpackZip(String path, String zipname)
{       
     InputStream is;
     ZipInputStream zis;
     try 
     {
         is = new FileInputStream(path + zipname);
         zis = new ZipInputStream(new BufferedInputStream(is));          
         ZipEntry ze;

         while((ze = zis.getNextEntry()) != null) 
         {
             ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
             byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
             int count;

             String filename = ze.getName();
             FileOutputStream fout = new FileOutputStream(path + filename);

             // reading and writing
             while((count = zis.read(buffer)) != -1) 
             {
                 baos.write(buffer, 0, count);
                 byte[] bytes = baos.toByteArray();
                 fout.write(bytes);             
                 baos.reset();
             }

             fout.close();               
             zis.closeEntry();
         }

         zis.close();
     } 
     catch(IOException e)
     {
         e.printStackTrace();
         return false;
     }

    return true;
}

Answer 2

Minimal example I used to unzip a specific file from my zipfile into my applications cache folder. I then read the manifest file using a different method.

private void unzipUpdateToCache() {
    ZipInputStream zipIs = new ZipInputStream(context.getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.update));
    ZipEntry ze = null;

    try {

        while ((ze = zipIs.getNextEntry()) != null) {
            if (ze.getName().equals("update/manifest.json")) {
                FileOutputStream fout = new FileOutputStream(context.getCacheDir().getAbsolutePath() + "/manifest.json");

                byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
                int length = 0;

                while ((length = zipIs.read(buffer))>0) {
                    fout.write(buffer, 0, length);
                }
                zipIs .closeEntry();
                fout.close();
            }
        }
        zipIs .close();

    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

}

Answer 3

While the answers that are already here work well, I found that they were slightly slower than I had hoped for. Instead I used zip4j, which I think is the best solution because of its speed. It also allowed for different options for the amount of compression, which I found useful.

Answer 4

UPDATE 2016 use the following class

    package com.example.zip;

    import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
    import java.io.File;
    import java.io.FileInputStream;
    import java.io.FileOutputStream;
    import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
    import java.util.zip.ZipInputStream;
    import android.util.Log;

    public class DecompressFast {



 private String _zipFile; 
  private String _location; 

  public DecompressFast(String zipFile, String location) { 
    _zipFile = zipFile; 
    _location = location; 

    _dirChecker(""); 
  } 

  public void unzip() { 
    try  { 
      FileInputStream fin = new FileInputStream(_zipFile); 
      ZipInputStream zin = new ZipInputStream(fin); 
      ZipEntry ze = null; 
      while ((ze = zin.getNextEntry()) != null) { 
        Log.v("Decompress", "Unzipping " + ze.getName()); 

        if(ze.isDirectory()) { 
          _dirChecker(ze.getName()); 
        } else { 
          FileOutputStream fout = new FileOutputStream(_location + ze.getName()); 
         BufferedOutputStream bufout = new BufferedOutputStream(fout);
          byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
          int read = 0;
          while ((read = zin.read(buffer)) != -1) {
              bufout.write(buffer, 0, read);
          }




          bufout.close();

          zin.closeEntry(); 
          fout.close(); 
        } 

      } 
      zin.close(); 


      Log.d("Unzip", "Unzipping complete. path :  " +_location );
    } catch(Exception e) { 
      Log.e("Decompress", "unzip", e); 

      Log.d("Unzip", "Unzipping failed");
    } 

  } 

  private void _dirChecker(String dir) { 
    File f = new File(_location + dir); 

    if(!f.isDirectory()) { 
      f.mkdirs(); 
    } 
  } 


 }

How to use

 String zipFile = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + "/the_raven.zip"; //your zip file location
    String unzipLocation = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + "/unzippedtestNew/"; // destination folder location
  DecompressFast df= new DecompressFast(zipFile, unzipLocation);
    df.unzip();

Permissions

 <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
 <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

Answer 5

Here is a ZipFileIterator (like a java Iterator, but for zip files):

package ch.epfl.bbp.io;

import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
import java.util.zip.ZipInputStream;

public class ZipFileIterator implements Iterator<File> {

    private byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];

    private FileInputStream is;
    private ZipInputStream zis;
    private ZipEntry ze;

    public ZipFileIterator(File file) throws FileNotFoundException {
    is = new FileInputStream(file);
    zis = new ZipInputStream(new BufferedInputStream(is));
    }

    @Override
    public boolean hasNext() {
    try {
        return (ze = zis.getNextEntry()) != null;
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return false;
    }

    @Override
    public File next() {
    try {
        ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        int count;

        String filename = ze.getName();
        File tmpFile = File.createTempFile(filename, "tmp");
        tmpFile.deleteOnExit();// TODO make it configurable
        FileOutputStream fout = new FileOutputStream(tmpFile);

        while ((count = zis.read(buffer)) != -1) {
        baos.write(buffer, 0, count);
        byte[] bytes = baos.toByteArray();
        fout.write(bytes);
        baos.reset();
        }
        fout.close();
        zis.closeEntry();

        return tmpFile;

    } catch (Exception e) {
        throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
    }

    @Override
    public void remove() {
    throw new RuntimeException("not implemented");
    }

    public void close() {
    try {
        zis.close();
        is.close();
    } catch (IOException e) {// nope
    }
    }
}

Answer 6

Had peno's version optimised a bit. The increase in performance is perceptible.

private boolean unpackZip(String path, String zipname)
{       
     InputStream is;
     ZipInputStream zis;
     try 
     {
         String filename;
         is = new FileInputStream(path + zipname);
         zis = new ZipInputStream(new BufferedInputStream(is));          
         ZipEntry ze;
         byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
         int count;

         while ((ze = zis.getNextEntry()) != null) 
         {
             filename = ze.getName();

             // Need to create directories if not exists, or
             // it will generate an Exception...
             if (ze.isDirectory()) {
                File fmd = new File(path + filename);
                fmd.mkdirs();
                continue;
             }

             FileOutputStream fout = new FileOutputStream(path + filename);

             while ((count = zis.read(buffer)) != -1) 
             {
                 fout.write(buffer, 0, count);             
             }

             fout.close();               
             zis.closeEntry();
         }

         zis.close();
     } 
     catch(IOException e)
     {
         e.printStackTrace();
         return false;
     }

    return true;
}