On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Bret Foreman <bret.fore...@gmail.com> wrote: > The following code does not give the expected results: > > prefInputStream = > getResources().openRawResource(R.xml.preferences); > byte[] rawBytes = new byte[100]; > prefInputStream.read( rawBytes, 0, 100 ); > > The bytes read are not printable ASCII characters. The start of the > file looks like this: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > <PreferenceScreen xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/ > android" android:key="main_preferencescreen" android:title="Settings"> > > > What gets read is: > > [3, 0, 8, 0, -8, 43, 0, 0, 1, 0, 28, 0, 0, 15, 0, 0, 100, 0, 0, 0, 0, > 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -84, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 10, 0, 0, > 0, 24, 0, 0, 0, 42, 0, 0, 0, 70, 0, 0, 0, 94, 0, 0, 0, 116, 0, 0, 0, > -114, 0, 0, 0, -88, 0, 0, 0, -70, 0, 0, 0, -54, 0, 0, 0, -36, 0, 0, 0, > -12, 0, 0, 0, 8, 1, 0, 0, 26, 1, 0, 0, 114, 1, 0, 0] > > Any idea what might be wrong?
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