Xamarin Forms - Open File As Stream

This might be a very simple question but I'm always confused when we're talking about streams. I'm trying to open a file in my Xamarin Forms project in the Android part of it. I ha

Solution 1:

You should be able to just use the StreamReader class from System.IO. Sample code could look something like this:

FileStreamfs=newFileStream("photo.jpg", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);

StreamReaderr=newStreamReader(fs);

Don't forget to dispose them after you are done.

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