[android-beginners] Re: zip files in resources

[Jeffrey Blattman]

right, my mistake. i can achieve the same thing by sticking the contents in assets and reading the data from there. thanks. On 8/28/09 6:23 AM, Mark Murphy wrote: i need to place a zip file in my resources (it is about 400k). i understand i can get a handle to the stream, to load the zip via ZipInputStream from that location, but in order to be memory conscious i really need to get a handle to a ZipFile. what are my options? i understand i can read the zip, then write it out to /data/... and create a ZipFile based on the file in /data/... however, then i'm using 400k extra internal memory for my app. so, i can either, 1. load the data from a ZipInputStream and keep it all in memory (about 1.7MB in text form) 2. read the stream and write it out to /data/... (a ~400k zip file) and then create a ZipFile based on the file in /data/... ? any other possibilities? The APK file *is* a ZIP file, so if your goal is merely compression, perhaps consider not storing it as a ZIP in the APK, but just store the original data in the APK. --