Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; //License from project: Open Source License import android.support.annotation.NonNull; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.io.OutputStream; import java.io.Reader; import java.io.StringWriter; import java.io.Writer; import java.nio.charset.Charset; public class Main { public static String readAsString(@NonNull InputStream is) throws IOException { StringWriter writer = new StringWriter(); InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(is, Charset.forName("UTF-8")); copy(reader, writer); return writer.toString(); } public static long copy(@NonNull final InputStream input, @NonNull final OutputStream output) throws IOException { byte[] buffer = new byte[1024 * 4]; long count = 0; int n = 0; while (-1 != (n = input.read(buffer))) { output.write(buffer, 0, n); count += n; } return count; } public static long copy(@NonNull Reader input, @NonNull Writer output) throws IOException { char[] buffer = new char[1024 * 4]; long count = 0; int n = 0; while (-1 != (n = input.read(buffer))) { output.write(buffer, 0, n); count += n; } return count; } }