String error “constant string too long”

Question

There is a 100,000-character text that need to be displayed. If I put it into String object, I get an error \"constant string too long\". The same is with StringBuffer object.

Answer 1

Yes constant String has a limit in java.

So what you can do is copy your String in a text file and put in root of Assets folder and read from file by the following method.

public String ReadFromfile(String fileName, Context context) {
StringBuilder returnString = new StringBuilder();
InputStream fIn = null;
InputStreamReader isr = null;
BufferedReader input = null;
try {
    fIn = context.getResources().getAssets()
            .open(fileName, Context.MODE_WORLD_READABLE);
    isr = new InputStreamReader(fIn);
    input = new BufferedReader(isr);
    String line = "";
    while ((line = input.readLine()) != null) {
        returnString.append(line);
    }
} catch (Exception e) {
    e.getMessage();
} finally {
    try {
        if (isr != null)
            isr.close();
        if (fIn != null)
            fIn.close();
        if (input != null)
            input.close();
    } catch (Exception e2) {
        e2.getMessage();
    }
}
return returnString.toString();
}