Android™

GZip Decompress File

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Demonstrates how to uncompress a .gz compressed file to get the uncompressed original file. 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();

    success = gzip.UncompressFile("qa_data/gzip/something.csv.gz","qa_output/something.csv");
    if (success != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, gzip.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    Log.i(TAG, "File successfully uncompressed and extracted from the Gzip compressed format.");

  }

  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."
  }
}