Read Excel file in android

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Im developing an android App I want to read the data in from Excel File Anyone having Idea How to read Excel file in android. I keep my file in res/raw folder and try to read it as given in this tutorial http://www.vogella.de/articles/JavaExcel/article.html Its not working if anyone having Idea then Reply Please

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Abhishek

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

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Try using Apache POI

Also, see this related question

edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

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answered Dec 09 '11 at 14:19

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There are so many related questions about how to read excel file in android but no proper answer – Abhishek Karande Dec 09 '11 at 14:22
Using Apache POI in android the eclipse fails to generate apk.And gives error : conversion to dalvik format failed with error 2. Too many methods: 66024; max is 65536. Abhishek can you tell how did you to read excel(.xlsx) file. – Ashwin N Bhanushali Nov 30 '13 at 16:20

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 09 '11 at 14:57

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You could try out jexcelapi (http://jexcelapi.sourceforge.net/) or apache poi (http://poi.apache.org/).

answered Dec 09 '11 at 14:57

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 21 '13 at 17:01

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Keep the file in the SDcard and give the path of the SDCArd while reading the file

File sdCard = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
File dir = new File(sdCard.getAbsolutePath() + "/Excel/filename.xls");

For eg. if you are keeping the file in excel folder then give the path as above

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answered Mar 18 '13 at 10:17

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