Reading a simple text file

Question

I am trying to read a simple text file in my sample Android Application. I am using the below written code for reading the simple text file.

InputStream inputStream = openFileInput("test.txt");
InputStreamReader inputStreamReader = new InputStreamReader(inputStream);
BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(inputStreamReader);

My questions is : Where should I place this "test.txt" file in my project?. I have tried putting the file under "res/raw" and "asset" folder but I get the exception "FileNotFound" when first live of the code written above gets executed.

Thanks for the help

Answer 1

Having a file in your assets folder requires you to use this piece of code in order to get files from the assets folder:

yourContext.getAssets().open("test.txt");

In this example, getAssets() returns an AssetManager instance and then you're free to use whatever method you want from the AssetManager API.