title: External data in Android
body: <p>I have hardcoded data in my Android application. This will be in tree format. like this</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;makes&gt;
  &lt;make&gt;
  &lt;name&gt;abc&lt;/name&gt;
  &lt;id&gt;1&lt;/id&gt;
  &lt;/make&gt;
  ... 10 more entries.
  &lt;/makes&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Since this data will be hard coded, in my application, what can i use to easily parse in in my application. I can simply load it from my assets directory, and use xml parsing, but is there any inbuilt ways to use it. I know i can make a String array from xml resource, but how can i use this structure. </p>