Elegant way to read file into byte[] array in Java [duplicate]

A long time ago:

Call any of these

byte[] org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.readFileToByteArray(File file)
byte[] org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils.toByteArray(InputStream input) 

From

http://commons.apache.org/io/

If the library footprint is too big for your Android app, you can just use relevant classes from the commons-io library

Today (Java 7+ or Android API Level 26+)

Luckily, we now have a couple of convenience methods in the nio packages. For instance:

byte[] java.nio.file.Files.readAllBytes(Path path)

Javadoc here