How to read an OpenOffice document spreadsheet from an android application?

Question

I want to read a Open Office Document spreadsheet (.ods file) from my android application. I need to basically loop through the first two columns & store them in a SQLite database.

I am able to do this by reading a regular text file stored in res/raw using the following code:

    InputStream is = context.getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.my_text_file);

But no clue how to do the same for an .ods file.

I searched through SOF & found a reference to jOpenDocument . But they talk about libraries that are not part of the android SDK & I don't know what to do with these.

Any help is appreciated!

Answer 1

If it's imperative that the file be in ODS format, which is similar to an XML format, you can parse it yourself. Check out the following link.

http://www.go4expert.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19110

Otherwise, may I suggest converting it to a CSV first? CSV means comma-separated-values. Thus It uses an even simpler syntax where each row is separated by a newline and each column in a row by a comma. For that you can use this code to get each line:

http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/Development-Class/SimpledemoofCSVmatchingusingRegularExpressions.htm

Answer 2

FYI, you can import SOME external JAR libraries into your android project.

Answer 3

JODF supports Android 2.2+ and Java 1.5+. It is Java API for Open Document Format