How to display large amounts of text on Android

Answer 1

IMHO the most effective way would be setting up one or more strings within the strings.xml and using the \n escape sequence to force a linebreak whenever needed.

If you want to display your data directly as a WebView you should consider storing it within res/html.

But storing an extra text file within res/raw and reading it every time you want to access it doesn't seem very efficient.