From: Joshua Hawkins <josh.r.hawk@gmail.com>
To: barriticus@gmail.com

Joshua: GUNS GUNS GUNS
me: oic
Joshua: ...now
Joshua: i'm a big boy
me: hurrah!
Joshua: i just wrote a whole bunch of code w/o andrew's help
Joshua: sweet deal
me: oh, Robocop
me: I see...
Joshua: package com.joshPlayer;

import java.io.DataInputStream;
import java.io.DataOutputStream;

import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Resources;

import com.josh.GeneralTools;

//create class which retrieves xml from the raw file and stores into stream

public class IORaw {

private static Context context;

// retrieve the xml via String name and put in output stream
public static DataOutputStream openRawtoDataOS(String xMLName) {

int statusCode = 0;
Resources rawRes = context.getResources();
int xMLId = rawRes.getIdentifier(xMLName, null, null);
DataInputStream rawIStream = (DataInputStream) rawRes.openRawResource(xMLId);
String dataString = GeneralTools.dataIStoString(rawIStream);
java.io.DataOutputStream dout = null;

try {
dout.writeChars(dataString);
} catch (java.io.IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

return dout;
}

// retrieve the xml via String aapt id and put in output stream
public static DataOutputStream openRawtoDataOS(int xMLId) {

int statusCode = 0;
Resources rawRes = context.getResources();
DataInputStream rawIStream = (DataInputStream) rawRes.openRawResource(xMLId);
String dataString = GeneralTools.dataIStoString(rawIStream);
java.io.DataOutputStream dout = null;

try {
dout.writeChars(dataString);
} catch (java.io.IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

return dout;
}

}

Joshua: wanna see it