Decompress Rar file in Android

Question

I want to learn how to decompress a .rar file in android. Zip files can be easily decompressed using ZipStream. Is there any similar way for rar files.

Answer 1

RAR isn't very commonly used (except in certain niches), so you won't find support for it built into the Android libraries. Probably the easiest thing to do is to get a Java library that handles RAR files, as covered in this question:

RAR archives with java