I found a solution. Using Assets.
Here is the simple code example of how I did it.
I know I could have used XmlPullParser to simply load an xml file from res, but I wanted to use SAX parsing. This allows me to simply throw an XML string into the SAX parser for testing before I plug in the webservice.
It just uses a simple view with a Button to kick off the file load and a TextView to display the XML for now. I can get on with my parser :)
package com.martins.XmlParserTest
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.res.AssetManager;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.TextView;
public class Main extends Activity {
Button btn;
TextView tvXml;
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
Button btn = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);
btn.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
// Load XML for parsing.
AssetManager assetManager = getAssets();
InputStream inputStream = null;
try {
inputStream = assetManager.open("textxml.xml");
} catch (IOException e) {
Log.e("tag", e.getMessage());
}
String s = readTextFile(inputStream);
TextView tv = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.textView1);
tv.setText(s);
}
});
}
private String readTextFile(InputStream inputStream) {
ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
byte buf[] = new byte[1024];
int len;
try {
while ((len = inputStream.read(buf)) != -1) {
outputStream.write(buf, 0, len);
}
outputStream.close();
inputStream.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
}
return outputStream.toString();
}
}
