Reading data from a text file and displaying it in text form

Question

I try to read data from the text file temp.txt, which is in my raw folder and displays the contents of the file in the text form “text” whenever the “button” button is pressed, but my application crashes doing this, there is a good chance that I I'm doing it wrong because I'm new to Android and Java programming. I am inserting the code here, any help would be appreciated

case R.id.b:

InputStream is = getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.temp); BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is)); try { string = br.readLine(); while(string != null){ st = string; } text.setText(st); } catch (IOException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } break; 

"st" and "string" are both string variables. I will be glad if anyone can point out another easy way to do the same.

Answer 1

Change the following:

 InputStream is = getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.temp); BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is)); String line; String entireFile = ""; try { while((line = br.readLine()) != null) { // <--------- place readLine() inside loop entireFile += (line + "\n"); // <---------- add each line to entireFile } } catch (IOException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } text.setText(entireFile); // <------- assign entireFile to TextView break;