Adding static JSON to an Android Studio project

The answer posted above is indeed what I'm looking for, but I thought I'd add some of the code I implemented to help others take this problem further:

1) Define JSON object in a txt file in the assets folder

2) Implement a method to extract that object in string form:

private String getJSONString(Context context)
{
    String str = "";
    try
    {
        AssetManager assetManager = context.getAssets();
        InputStream in = assetManager.open("json.txt");
        InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(in);
        char [] inputBuffer = new char[100];

        int charRead;
        while((charRead = isr.read(inputBuffer))>0)
        {
            String readString = String.copyValueOf(inputBuffer,0,charRead);
            str += readString;
        }
    }
    catch(IOException ioe)
    {
        ioe.printStackTrace();
    }

    return str;
}

3) Parse the object in any way you see fit. My method was similar to this:

public void parseJSON(View view)
{
    JSONObject json = new JSONObject();

    try {
        json = new JSONObject(getJSONString(getApplicationContext()));
    } catch (JSONException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

   //implement logic with JSON here       
}

You should replace the String datatype to StringBuilder in the while loop for the properly optimized solution. So in the while loop instead of concatenating you would append the readString to the str StringBuilder.

str.append(readString);