In this android tutorial, You are going to learn how to read excel file in android from asset folder using Apache POI. What is android Apache POI lib? To Read / Write Excel file (.xls or .xlsx) there are two types of library available – 1) JXL and 2) Apache POI. But the first one- Java JXL does not support the Excel 2007+ “.xlsx” format; it only supports the old BIFF (binary) “.xls” format. Apache POI supports both with a common design. We will use asset manager class to read …