AssetManager in Android

Here you will learn how to read text file using AssetManager.

AssetManager in android

Basically, Assets are a raw approach to resource management. We can place any files we want into the assets directory of our project.

If we have a reference to any Context subclass, such as an Activity, we can get a reference to the AssetManager instance provided by the platform:

AssetManager assetManager = getAssets();

Once we have an AssetManager reference, we can just open a raw InputStream for any asset we put into the assets directory

Like in this way:

<> InputStream input = null;

<> try {

<> input = assetManager.open("mytextfile.txt<> ");

<> } catch (IOException e) {

<> // handle

<> }

Here is an example as a class having feature of text file reading via AssetManager

For instance

public static class myData
{
    public static void loadData(Context context)
    {

        try
        {
            AssetManager am = context.getAssets();
            InputStream is = am.open("mytextfile.txt");
            BufferedReader br =
            new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
            String line = br.readLine();
            My_Name = line;
            line = br.readLine();
            My_Contact = Integer.parseInt(line);
            br.close();
        }
        catch (IOException e)
        {

            Log.e("Error", "Unable to read data from txt file");

        }
    }
}