diff --git a/src/com/annimon/client/utils/ApiUtils.java b/src/com/annimon/client/utils/ApiUtils.java
index 215f115..f3e99d9 100644
--- a/src/com/annimon/client/utils/ApiUtils.java
+++ b/src/com/annimon/client/utils/ApiUtils.java
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 package com.annimon.client.utils;
 
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
 
@@ -16,8 +19,11 @@ import org.json.JSONArray;
 import org.json.JSONException;
 import org.json.JSONObject;
 
+import com.annimon.client.R;
 import com.annimon.client.entities.ForumPost;
+import com.annimon.client.entities.ForumSection;
 
+import android.content.Context;
 import android.text.TextUtils;
 import android.util.Base64;
 
@@ -64,6 +70,47 @@ public class ApiUtils {
         return posts;
     }
     
+    /**
+     * Get forum sections.
+     * @return arraylist of forum sections from raw resource
+     */
+    public static List<ForumSection> getForumSections(Context context) {
+    	InputStream is = context.getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.forum);
+    	StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+    	try {
+    		BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is, "UTF-8"));
+    	    int length;
+    	    char[] buffer = new char[1024];
+    	    while ((length = reader.read(buffer)) != -1) {
+    	        sb.append(buffer, 0, length);
+    	    }
+    	    reader.close();
+    	} catch (IOException ex) {
+    		ExceptionHandler.log("getForumSections RAW", ex);
+    	}
+
+    	String jsonString = sb.toString();
+    	List<ForumSection> sections = new ArrayList<ForumSection>();
+        try {
+            if (TextUtils.isEmpty(jsonString)) return sections;
+            
+            JSONArray jsonArray = new JSONArray(jsonString);
+            for (int i = 0; i < jsonArray.length(); i++) {
+                JSONObject jsonObject = jsonArray.getJSONObject(i);
+                sections.add(new ForumSection(jsonObject.getString("name")));
+                JSONArray subsections = jsonObject.getJSONArray("topics");
+                for (int j = 0; j < subsections.length(); j++) {
+                	int id = subsections.getJSONObject(j).getInt("id");
+                	String name = subsections.getJSONObject(j).getString("name");
+                	sections.add(new ForumSection(id, name));
+                }
+            }
+        } catch (JSONException ex) {
+            ExceptionHandler.log("getForumSections", ex);
+        }
+        return sections;
+    }
+    
     private static HttpResponse sendPost(String url, List<NameValuePair> data) throws IOException {
         HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
         HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(url);