Loading Shaders

Now that we’ve written the code for our shaders, the next step is to load them into memory. To do that, we’ll first need to write a method to read in the code from our resources folder.

Loading Text from a Resource

Create a new Java source package in your project, com.airhockey.android.util, and in that package, create a new class called TextResourceReader. Add the following code inside the class:

AirHockey1/src/com/airhockey/android/util/TextResourceReader.java
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​public​ ​static​ ​String​ readTextFileFromResource(​Context​ context,
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​int​ resourceId) {
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​StringBuilder​ body = ​new​ ​StringBuilder​();
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​ 
​try​ {
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​InputStream​ inputStream =
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context.getResources().openRawResource(resourceId);
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​InputStreamReader​ inputStreamReader ...

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