diff --git a/sdk-java/src/main/java/ly/count/sdk/java/internal/Utils.java b/sdk-java/src/main/java/ly/count/sdk/java/internal/Utils.java
index e899412b7..fc966e1f4 100644
--- a/sdk-java/src/main/java/ly/count/sdk/java/internal/Utils.java
+++ b/sdk-java/src/main/java/ly/count/sdk/java/internal/Utils.java
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 package ly.count.sdk.java.internal;
 
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
@@ -291,6 +294,32 @@ public static boolean isValidDataType(Object value) {
                 value instanceof Float;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Read file content using UTF-8 encoding into a string and
+     * append lines to a "StringBuilder" and return it
+     * If file doesn't exist, return empty string
+     *
+     * @param file to read
+     * @return file contents or empty string
+     * @throws IOException if file exists but couldn't be read
+     */
+    public static String readFileContent(File file) throws IOException {
+        StringBuilder fileContent = new StringBuilder();
+
+        if (!file.exists()) {
+            return fileContent.toString();
+        }
+
+        try (BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file))) {
+            String line;
+            while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
+                fileContent.append(line);
+            }
+        }
+
+        return fileContent.toString();
+    }
+
     public static class Base64 {
         public static String encode(byte[] bytes) {
             return ly.count.sdk.java.internal.Base64.encodeBytes(bytes);