Include local .json file in Eclipse Android project

Question

I have a local .json file. I don't want it to be on a server, I just want it to be included in my app. I tried to paste it directly into Eclipse in my project, but I got a FileNotFoundException, I also tried to paste it in the workspace folder in Windows Explorer/Finder and got the same exception. Where should I put it?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You should put the file either in the /assets or /res/raw directory of your Android project. From there, you can retrieve it with either: Context.getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.filename) or Context.getResources().getAssets().open("filename").

Answer 2

Put the json file in assets folder, I have used this method like this

public static String jsonToStringFromAssetFolder(String fileName,Context context) throws IOException {
        AssetManager manager = context.getAssets();
        InputStream file = manager.open(fileName);

        byte[] data = new byte[file.available()];
        file.read(data);
        file.close();
        return new String(data);
    }

While parsing we can use the method like:

String jsondata= jsonToStringFromAssetFolder(your_filename, your_context);
jsonFileToJavaObjectsParsing(jsondata);  // json data to java objects implementation 

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