Choosing from a list which will display the contents of a file(from a list of 100+ text files)

Question

I am writing a little application but I am stuck.

It's an application which will list, open and display song lyrics. The lyrics are saved in a .txt file and are named: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.... 600.

Here are the basic functionalities:

Display a list of songs by title.
When the user click on the title it will open and display the file in an activity or fragment.

Here is an idea of what it might look like: https://i.stack.imgur.com/fG3pw.jpg

Here are my main challenges:

How to grab the title for all the files? ( they are in the first line of each file). what's the best way to store the files. In a SQL database, XML ?

Thank you for any tips you might give me. As long as I can get this working, I am good to go.

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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I suggest you start using Google a little bit:

The first result for "Java reading text file Android" is -> Reading a simple text file

And yes, you probably want to store that in a SQL Database.

But you need to do some more research and start with basic tasks first. This question is too broad and contains too many sub-questions.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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answered Mar 08 '14 at 23:59

Martin Marconcini

Thank so very much, I will keep that in mind. At least now I have a starting point. – Kirk Brannigan Mar 09 '14 at 02:30
Sure thing, don't hesitate to post more specific questions, like: I am trying to read this file and I get this error. here's the error, here's the code. ;) – Martin Marconcini Mar 09 '14 at 07:17

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