Didn't think about stringbuilder when I did it. But I'll try it! Does anyone else have any suggestions about size limitations?
//André On Feb 9, 8:16 pm, Kostya Vasilyev <kmans...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can't speak for size limitations, but why are putting the data into a > vector, and appending to EditText one line at a time? > > Reading line by line and building the content in a StringBuilder seems > more efficient, then you can do editText.setText() just once. > > And reading one line at a time is only necessary if your file comes from > Windows and contains '\r' characters (they are not recognized by > TextView and have to be stripped, leaving just '\n'-s). > > -- Kostya > > 09.02.2011 21:20, André пишет: > > > > > > > > > > > What would be the best way of reading large text files from the > > sdcard? > > > Right now I'm using this in my browser activity: > > > File f = new File(filePath); > > FileInputStream file = new FileInputStream(f); > > BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(file)); > > do { > > st = in.readLine(); > > vector.add(st); > > } while (st != null); > > in.close(); > > > and in the other activity where I want to edit the file I have: > > > char lf = 10; > > int k = 0; > > String s = null; > > for (int i = 0; i< browseractivity.vector.size(); i++) { > > s = browseractivity.vector.get(k); > > if (s != null) { > > editText.append(s); > > editText.append(String.valueOf(lf)); > > } > > k++; > > } > > > When trying this on a file of 24648 bytes which corresponds to 24097 > > chars on 555 lines > > I looked in Notepad++ at which characters it cuts. > > It displays 8764 characters which corresponds exactly to 9000 bytes > > and 237 lines > > > Does any one have a better suggestion of how to do this so I can read > > larger files? > > > //André > > -- > Kostya Vasilyev -- WiFi Manager + pretty widget > --http://kmansoft.wordpress.com -- 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