read file from assets

Question

public class Utils {
    public static List getMessages() {
        //File file = new File(\"file:///android_asset/helloworld.txt\");
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Answer 1

Here is a way to get an InputStream for a file in the assets folder without a Context, Activity, Fragment or Application. How you get the data from that InputStream is up to you. There are plenty of suggestions for that in other answers here.

Kotlin

val inputStream = ClassLoader::class.java.classLoader?.getResourceAsStream("assets/your_file.ext")

Java

InputStream inputStream = ClassLoader.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("assets/your_file.ext");

All bets are off if a custom ClassLoader is in play.