Yah I have tried using TextView but I am getting blank screen. Is it correct to use the following code to access the file in /data directory?
File file = new File(Environment.getDataDirectory(),"/data/ monitor.txt"); After which I did the reading by line and displaying using TextView but getting blank screen Regards, Perumal On Jan 22, 12:05 am, TreKing <treking...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 8:35 PM, perumal316 <perumal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Suppose I have a text file in /data folder, is there any way I can > > display the textfile to user through an app? > > Sure. If you want to do this yourself, just read the contents of the file > and dump it to a TextView or something you can show in an Activity or a > Dialog. > > If you want to use a separate app, create an Intent with a URI created from > the path to the file and call startActivity with that Intent. The user can > then choose which app to use to open the file, of the ones that are capable > of handling that file type. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TreKing - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered > deviceshttp://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
