How to get File within' package, in an Android application

Question

I'm am creating an Android application, but in order to have one of the functionalities working I need to read a predefined xml file whilst only knowing its name, not the R.id..

In normal Java I know I can use

getClass().getClassLoader().getResource(xmlName)

but using the limited Android SDK thats not working, any knows how to solve this?

Answer 1

From the Data Storage Section in the android developer manual:

If you have a static file to package with your application at compile time, you can save the file in your project in res/raw/myDataFile, and then open it with Resources.openRawResource (R.raw.myDataFile). It returns an InputStream object that you can use to read from the file.

Answer 2

Use getResources().getIdentifier() from your Context (e.g., Activity), but please cache the result if you will use it more than once. getIdentifier() is implemented on Resources.