Copying Xml File From Res/Xml Folder to Device Storage - android

I'm trying to copy an xml file from the res/xml folder to the device storage but I'm really struggling on how to do this.
I know that the starting point is to get an InputStream to read the xml file. This is achieved by using this:
InputStream is = getResources().openRawResource(R.xml.xmlfile);
Eventually the output stream will be:
file = new File("xmlfile.xml");
FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(file);
But I'm really struggling on how to read and copy all the information from the initial xml file correctly and accurately.
So far, I've tried using various InputStream and OutputStream to read and write (DataInputStream, DataOutputStream, OutputStreamWriter, etc.) but I still didn't managed to get it correctly. There are some unknown characters (encoding issue?) in the produced xml file. Can anyone help me on this? Thanks!

From res/xml you can't you have to put all files in your assets folder then use below code
Resources r = getResources();
AssetManager assetManager = r.getAssets();
File f = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(), "dummy.xml");
InputStream is = = assetManager.open("fileinAssestFolder.xml");
OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(f, true);
final int buffer_size = 1024 * 1024;
try
{
byte[] bytes = new byte[buffer_size];
for (;;)
{
int count = is.read(bytes, 0, buffer_size);
if (count == -1)
break;
os.write(bytes, 0, count);
}
is.close();
os.close();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
ex.printStackTrace();
}

I think you should use the raw folder instead. Have a look at http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/providing-resources.html.

You can also use this code:
try {
InputStream input = getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.XZY);
OutputStream output = getApplicationContext().openFileOutput("xyz.mp3", Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
byte data[] = new byte[1024];
long total = 0;
int count;
while ((count = input.read(data)) != -1) {
total += count;
output.write(data, 0, count);
}
output.flush();
output.close();
input.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
}
And when you need file use this code:
File k =getApplicationContext().getFileStreamPath("xyz.mp3");

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You can modify this code and make it work for you (I know I will only have 4 files which is why I have i go from 0 to 4 but you can change this to whatever you want).
This code copies the file starting with prefix_ (like prefix_1.png, prefix_2.png, etc) to my cache directory but you can obviously change the extension, the filename or the path you would like to save the assets to.
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int size = is.available();
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} catch (Exception e) {
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}
}
}

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