If I truncate the file to 100,000 bytes (file is: 1,917,408 bytes
originally) it works fine.  Is there a problem with files over a
certain size?

On Aug 13, 10:36 am, Jonathan <jon.aposto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm running into a strange problem while reading from an InputStream
> on the Android platform. I'm not sure if this is an Android specific
> issue, or something I'm doing wrong in general.
>
> The only thing that is Android specific is this call:
>
> InputStream is = getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.myfile);
>
> This returns an InputStream for a file from the Android assets.
> Anyways, here's where I run into the issue:
>
> bytes[] buffer = new bytes[2];
> is.read(buffer);
>
> When the read() executes it throws an IOException. The weird thing is
> that if I do two sequential single byte reads (or any number of single
> byte reads), there is no exception. Ie, this works:
>
> byte buffer;
> buffer = (byte)buffer.read();
> buffer = (byte)buffer.read();
>
> Any idea why two sequential single byte reads work but one call to
> read both at once throws an exception? The InputStream seems fine...
> is.available() returns over a million bytes (as it should).
>
> Stack trace shows these lines just before the InputStream.read():
>
> java.io.IOException
> at android.content.res.AssetManager.readAsset(Native Method)
> at android.content.res.AssetManager.access$800(AssetManager.java:36)
> at android.content.res.AssetManager$AssetInputStream.read
> (AssetManager.java:542)
>
> Changing the buffer size to a single byte still throws the error. It
> looks like the exception is only raised when reading into a byte
> array.
>
> Any help is appreciated! Thanks!
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