OutOfMemoryError while converting Stream to String in Android

Question

am loading xml file from Assets folder. am getting OutOfMemoryError. The code which i have used is

private String convertStreamToString(InputStream is) {  
    BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

    String line = null;
    try {
        while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
            sb.append(line + NEW_LINE);
        }
        reader.close();

    } catch (IOException e) {
        //do nothing.
    } finally {
        try {
            reader.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            //do nothing.    
        }
    }
    reader=null;
    return sb.toString();
}

Is there an alternate way to get rid of this Exception. It will be more helpful if you post any code. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

It's not a good idea to parse a big Xml using a String. You should turn to a streaming version of the parser. Google Http Java Client proposes such a library : http://code.google.com/p/google-http-java-client