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Android

Posted by Amin Memon
Amin Memon
807 Points

Where to store excel sheets in an android project?

Hello,

I am working on an android app where I would like to retrieve data from an excel sheet. I found some libraries from extracting data from excel in Java such as (http://www.andykhan.com/jexcelapi/tutorial.html#reading)

Also, found some documentation to get into the directory (http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Context.html#getExternalFilesDir%28java.lang.String%29)

but I cannot find where should I store my Excel Sheet so that whenever anyone installs the app it gets saved in their directory and then the app can secretly extract some data and use it for further app logic.

Thanks

1 Answer

Ernest Grzybowski
Ernest Grzybowski
Treehouse Project Reviewer
Ernest Grzybowski
Ernest Grzybowski
Treehouse Project Reviewer

Hey Amin Memon,

You should find this piece of documentation very helpful.

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/providing-resources.html

You will see that arbitrary files should go into the raw/. Reading the documentation will also show you how to open the file. Also, check out this question from Stack Overflow.