Question:

I have a layout where I have an Edit Text field where I enter my data. I have 2 buttons.Save and Plot.

When I press save I want to save the data (in xls format) from edittext field and the current date in sd card.

When I press the plot ,I want to plot them.

To save data:

case R.id.savebtn: savefunc(); break; ... public void savefunc(){ //saving File sdCard = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(); File directory = new File (sdCard, "MyFiles"); directory.mkdirs(); File file = new File(directory, filename); try { FileOutputStream fOut = new FileOutputStream(file); DataOutputStream os = new DataOutputStream(fOut); os.writeUTF(thedata); os.writeUTF(mydate); os.close(); } catch (FileNotFoundException e) { // handle exception } catch (IOException e) { // handle exception } }

For reading:

public void readfunc(){ File sdCard = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(); File directory = new File (sdCard, "MyFiles"); File file = new File(directory, filename); try{ FileInputStream fIn = new FileInputStream(file); DataInputStream is = new DataInputStream(fIn); String name = is.readUTF(); String content = is.readUTF(); is.close(); } catch (FileNotFoundException e) { // handle exception } catch (IOException e) { // handle exception } }

and :

case R.id.savebtn: savefunc(); break; case R.id.graphicsbtn: readfunc(); ...

But the xls file asks me format , I choose UTF8 and it is empty.

If I leave it shows chinese characters.

I am not sure about the "reading" part of the code.

Read this documentation here have more information about save data to external storage and read it is:

<a href="http://developer.android.com/training/basics/data-storage/files.html" rel="nofollow">Saving and Reading file from External storage</a>

Ok, I found <a href="http://www.mysamplecode.com/2012/05/java-read-file-bufferedinputstream.html" rel="nofollow">this</a> and works fine!