一个灵活的解决方案，使用Apache commons io中的IOUItils和StringWriter：

Reader input = new FileReader();
StringWriter output = new StringWriter();
try {
  IOUtils.copy(input, output);
} finally {
  input.close();
}
String fileContents = output.toString();

它适用于任何读取器或输入流（不仅仅是文件），例如从URL读取时。

我还不能评论其他条目，所以我就把它留在这里。

这里最好的答案之一(https://stackoverflow.com/a/326448/1521167):

private String readFile(String pathname) throws IOException {

File file = new File(pathname);
StringBuilder fileContents = new StringBuilder((int)file.length());
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(file);
String lineSeparator = System.getProperty("line.separator");

try {
    while(scanner.hasNextLine()) {        
        fileContents.append(scanner.nextLine() + lineSeparator);
    }
    return fileContents.toString();
} finally {
    scanner.close();
}
}

仍然有一个缺陷。它总是在字符串末尾添加换行符，这可能会导致一些奇怪的错误。我的建议是将其更改为：

    private String readFile(String pathname) throws IOException {
    File file = new File(pathname);
    StringBuilder fileContents = new StringBuilder((int) file.length());
    Scanner scanner = new Scanner(new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file)));
    String lineSeparator = System.getProperty("line.separator");

    try {
        if (scanner.hasNextLine()) {
            fileContents.append(scanner.nextLine());
        }
        while (scanner.hasNextLine()) {
            fileContents.append(lineSeparator + scanner.nextLine());
        }
        return fileContents.toString();
    } finally {
        scanner.close();
    }
}

import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Paths;

Java 7

String content = new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get("readMe.txt")), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);

Java 11

String content = Files.readString(Paths.get("readMe.txt"));

同一主题上有一个变体，它使用for循环而不是while循环来限制行变量的范围。是否“更好”取决于个人品味。

for(String line = reader.readLine(); line != null; line = reader.readLine()) {
    stringBuilder.append(line);
    stringBuilder.append(ls);
}

纯kotlin代码，无依赖关系

适用于所有android版本

val fileAsString = file.bufferedReader().use { it.readText() }

自JDK 11以来：

String file = ...
Path path = Paths.get(file);
String content = Files.readString(path);
// Or readString(path, someCharset), if you need a Charset different from UTF-8