Android™

GZip Tar Extract (.tgz or .tar.gz)

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Demonstrates how to extract the contents of a GZip compressed Tar archive (.tgz or .tar.gz). 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();

    // Ungzip and untar.
    boolean bNoAbsolute = true;
    String untarToDirectory;
    untarToDirectory = "/temp/test";
    // bNoAbsolute tells the component to convert all absolute paths
    // found in the .tar to relative paths.   For example, if the .tar
    // contains a file with an absolute path such as
    // "/usr/bin/something.exe" it will
    // be extracted to "/temp/test/usr/bin/something.exe"
    success = gzip.UnTarGz("test.tar.gz",untarToDirectory,bNoAbsolute);
    if (success != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, gzip.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }


  }

  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."
  }
}