Java – Android does not write new lines in text files

I’m trying to write a new line to a text file in android.

Here is my code:

FileOutputStream fOut;
try {
    String newline = "\r\n";
    fOut = openFileOutput("cache.txt", MODE_WORLD_READABLE);
    OutputStreamWriter osw = new OutputStreamWriter(fOut); 

    osw.write(data);
    osw.write(newline);

    osw.flush();
    osw.close();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

I’ve \ntried , and I’ve also tried getting the system properties for line breaks,\r\n but none of them work.

The data variable contains previous data from the same file.

String data = "";

try {
    FileInputStream in = openFileInput("cache.txt");   
    StringBuffer inLine = new StringBuffer();
    InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(in, "ISO8859-1");
    BufferedReader inRd = new BufferedReader(isr,8 * 1024);
    String text;

    while ((text = inRd.readLine()) != null) {
        inLine.append(text);
    }

    in.close();
    data = inLine.toString();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e1) {
    e1.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

I had the same problem, tried all the tricks in the book.

My question: line breaks are written, but when reading they are removed:

while (readString != null) {
                datax.append(readString);
                readString = buffreader.readLine();
            }

Files are read and concatenated line by line, so the newline characters disappear.

I didn’t look at the original file in Notepad or something because I don’t know where to look on my phone, my log screen uses the code to remove line breaks 🙁

So the easiest way is to put it back while reading:

while (readString != null) {
                datax.append(readString);
                datax.append("\n");
                readString = buffreader.readLine();
            }