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Android™

S3 Download String Object

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Demonstrates how to download a text file (i.e. object) from the Amazon S3 service directly into an in-memory string variable.

Chilkat Android™ Downloads

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);

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

    CkHttp http = new CkHttp();

    // Insert your access key here:
    http.put_AwsAccessKey("AWS_ACCESS_KEY");

    // Insert your secret key here:
    http.put_AwsSecretKey("AWS_SECRET_KEY");

    // This bucket is in the us-east-1 region.
    http.put_AwsRegion("us-east-1");

    String bucketName = "chilkat-test-bucket";

    String objectName = "fruit.xml";

    String charset = "utf-8";

    String fileContents;
    fileContents = http.s3_DownloadString(bucketName,objectName,charset);

    if (http.get_LastMethodSuccess() != true) {
        // Failed
        Log.i(TAG, http.lastErrorText());
        }
    else {
        // Success
        Log.i(TAG, fileContents);
        }


  }

  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."
  }
}