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copied!<p>I am trying to read a text file with JavaScript using Phonegap 2.0.0 on Android. I went over several examples using the File API at <a href="http://docs.phonegap.com/en/2.0.0/cordova_file_file.md.html#File" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://docs.phonegap.com/en/2.0.0/cordova_file_file.md.html#File</a> Nothing seems to work.</p> <p>I read several related threads on Stackoverflow, for example: </p> <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8952950/how-to-read-file-in-android-using-phonegap-javascript">How to read file in android using PhoneGap Javascript</a></p> <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11145614/android-html5-fileapi-can-i-read-file-from-sd-card">Android HTML5 FileApi can i read file from SD Card?</a></p> <p>and <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11207099/how-to-create-a-new-file">How to create a new file</a> among others. Yet none of the techniques seem to work.</p> <p>I am using Nexus One with API 8. The android app loads a URL: <a href="http://www.mydomain.com/read_text_file.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.mydomain.com/read_text_file.html</a> which contains the JavaScript utilizing the PhoneGap framework. I am trying to access a file on the SD card located at: <code>/sdcard/textfile.txt</code>. I specify the path to the file in the JavaScript as: <code>file:///sdcard/textfile.txt</code></p> <p>For the time being my goal is to trigger an alert from the JavaScript upon page load and show the file contents ( which is just "test file" )</p>

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