Load text file into stringlist in Delphi XE-5 Firemonkey Android App

Question

I have a text file (tags.txt) that i would like to deploy with my app. I then want to load it into a TStringList at start up. As of now for testing purposes, i have it just in a button's onClick event. However, it doesn't seem to work. I have read a number of resources on line, including those from embarcadero and SO. I just do not know what i am doing wrong. I get a "Cannot open file "/data/data/com.embarcadero.PTMMobile/files/tags.txt". No such file or directory.

Here is my code:

var
  frmMain: TfrmMain;
  AppPath: String;
  Tags: TStringList;

implementation

{$R *.fmx}

uses System.IOUtils;

procedure TfrmMain.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
  Tags:= TStringList.Create;
  try
   AppPath := TPath.Combine(TPath.GetDocumentsPath, 'tags.txt');
   Label1.Text:= AppPath;
   Tags.LoadFromFile(AppPath);
   Label2.Text:= IntToStr(Tags.Count);
  finally
   Tags.Free;
  end;
end;

end.

My remote path is assets\internal

Answer 1

Looking at your screenshot it seems the original file is in the Debug binaries folder of your application. Try to move the file in the project folder and retry (of course you have to re-add the new file location to your deploy options).

The binaries folder may be cleaned up at each build, deleting your original file just before trying to deploy it to the device.

Hth