How to Fetch an excel File from an API in Android

Asked Nov 18 '21 at 08:28

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I have a task to fetch an excel file from an endpoint and display it on the android app. When I ran the endpoint with Postman, I got a response of this nature:

PK ��

I have not done something of this before. Please can someone explain the data type of those symbols and what I am supposed to handle it on the application using Kotlin or java.

Please help

asked Nov 18 '21 at 08:28

Jesse Okoro

Start bytes of a zip file? – blackapps Nov 18 '21 at 08:42
If your question is about Postman then you are on the wrong forum. – blackapps Nov 18 '21 at 08:43
Further, talking about an endpoint is very vague. If your file is on a server somewhere than show how its url would look like. And downloading a file is downloading a file. Type does not matter if done well. – blackapps Nov 18 '21 at 08:45
@blackapps It's not a zip file. It's an excel file that was converted into byteStream and passed through an endpoint – Jesse Okoro Nov 18 '21 at 08:58

How to Fetch an excel File from an API in Android

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