Reading A Plain Text File

I know this topic probably has been covered before but I cant find an answer to the my problem. I have a file that contains some words I need to read. It works normally on my deskt

Solution 1:

You can reach a file from context in android.

Context Context;
AssetManager mngr = context.getAssets();
String line;
        try {

            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(mngr.open("words.txt")));
            if (!br.ready()) {
                thrownew IOException();
            }
            while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
                words.add(line);
            }
            br.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.out.println(e);
        }

Or try this:

String line;
        try {

            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(getApplicationContext().getAssets().open("words.txt")));
            if (!br.ready()) {
                thrownew IOException();
            }
            while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
                words.add(line);
            }
            br.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.out.println(e);
        }

Solution 2:

Assets are files on your development machine. They are not files on the device.

To get an InputStream on an asset, use open() on an AssetManager. You can get an AssetManager by calling getAssets() on your Activity, Service, or other Context.