How to store big text resources in Android (up to 100mb)

Question

I want to make text reader in Android. There are 20000 text files with summary size of, maybe, up to 100mb. The application must be able to read the texts offline. I do not know how to implement it. If we put all the texts in the apk-file, it will turn out giant-sized (4mb of apk + 100mb of text). It can be more convenient to store the text in a single file? Maybe I can use archives? Maybe I can use a swap file after installing? Help needed! Thanks!

Answer 1

I created an app with 300 Mb text. I uses SQlite DB because i needed fast search in my case. Then I archived DB, put in assets and extract on first run. Result archived DB was 56 Mb. In your case you may do the same. But you don't need use a sqlite if you don't need search, relation data etc. Is not so much choice really, database or text files depending on the requirements