Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import android.content.res.Resources; public class Main { public static String getStringFromResRaw(int iResId, Resources resources) { InputStream inputStream = resources.openRawResource(iResId); ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); int iLen = -1; byte[] buffer = new byte[512]; try { while (-1 != (iLen = inputStream.read(buffer))) outputStream.write(buffer, 0, iLen); inputStream.close(); return new String(outputStream.toByteArray()); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); return null; } } }