How does one unpack a tar file in Android?

Question

I'm not overly familiar with tar, so, this may be a stupid question, but I have a situation where I want to grab a tarball from the server (preferably compressed, but that's not essential), download it on to the device and untar it.

I'm not seeing any standard library to do this... am I overlooking it, or does it not exist?

[EDIT] I'm attempting to do this in my app by means of some API or library that handles unpacking tars - I'm not looking for an app that un-tars stuff on my device.

Answer 1

I don't know if there is support for it built into the OS. But you should be able to use a third party library to do it.

Here is one, I am sure there are others to choose from out there as well.