Android™

GZip Create / Extract .gz File

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Demonstrates how to compress a file to create a .gz (GZip) file.

Note: The .gz file format is a compressed file format. It contains a single file. The .gz file format is not an archive format (i.e. it does not contain a collection of files/directories such as with the .zip, .rar, or .tar file formats). GZip is often combined with TAR to create a .tgz (or .tar.gz).

Note: It is possible for a .gz to contain more than one file, but this is very uncommon.

Android™

// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    boolean success = false;

    // This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    CkGzip gzip = new CkGzip();

    // File-to-file GZip:
    // Compress "hamlet.xml" to create "hamlet.xml.gz"
    success = gzip.CompressFile("hamlet.xml","hamlet.xml.gz");
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, gzip.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // File-to-file ungzip
    // Decompress "hamlet.xml.gz" to create "hamletOut.xml"
    success = gzip.UncompressFile("hamlet.xml.gz","hamletOut.xml");
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, gzip.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // File-to-string ungzip
    // Decompress the contents of a .gz directly to a string variable:
    // The 2nd argument indicates the charset of the character
    // data after it is decompressed.
    String xmlStr;
    xmlStr = gzip.uncompressFileToString("hamlet.xml.gz","utf-8");
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, gzip.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    Log.i(TAG, xmlStr);

    // The Chilkat GZip API provides much more flexibility than shown
    // here.  See the reference documentation at 
    // http://www.chilkatsoft.com/refdoc for more information

  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}