Loads lines of text from the given path in the assets directory. - Android App

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Description

Loads lines of text from the given path in the assets directory.

Demo Code

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 * Copyright (c) 2015 Luka Kunic, "ActivityUtils.java"
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 * Last modified: 08/02/2015
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//package com.java2s;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import android.content.Context;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Loads lines of text from the given path in the assets directory.
     * @param context Application context.
     * @param path Path in the assets folder to the text file to load.
     * @return String array representing lines of text in the file.
     */
    public static String[] loadTextFromAssets(Context context, String path) {
        try {
            // Open the input stream to the text in assets
            InputStream inputStream = context.getAssets().open(path);
            InputStreamReader inputStreamReader = new InputStreamReader(
                    inputStream);
            BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(
                    inputStreamReader);

            List<String> lines = new ArrayList<String>();

            String line;
            while ((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {
                lines.add(line);
            }

            inputStream.close();

            return lines.toArray(new String[lines.size()]);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            return null;
        }

    }
}

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