Storing short strings and numeric values in resources in Android

Question

I want to have some static numeric and text values as an application resource. For example my data is like this:

Levels 5 First_Level 500 60 1 Second_Level 500 80 1 Third_Level 200 60 1 Fourth_Level 130 30 2 Final_Level 100 30 3
... and another 300 lines...

The format and order of the data is predefined and guaranteed to be valid.

I could read it with java.util.Scanner, but it's extremely slow in Android, reading a 10 KB file takes minutes. It's slow because of the regular-expression-based pattern matching inside (when I traceview'ed it).

What way would you suggest to store them?

Answer 1

You can store it in a object arraylist, that object just implements Serializable.

Then just ObjectOutputStream.writeObject(list), and later use readObject.

Answer 2

You can store it as raw data in resources/raw (e.g. as CSV or TSV) and use Resources.openRawResource to read from it using an InputStream. That should be reasonably fast.