Reading from home directory in linux using ~/ or $HOME and BufferedReader

I'm working on an app that reads in a number from a user's home directory using BufferedReader. The file is written by an external script to ~/filename. I don't know if the user of the app's home directory will be /homes/username, /home/username, or something else. I would prefer to read in a similar fashion:
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader( new FileReader("~" + File.separator + ".AppDisableUntilDate") );
Unfortunately, this causes the following error:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: ~/.AppDisableUntilDate (No such file or directory)
less ~/.AppDisableUntilDate does read the file. Using $HOME in place of ~/ also fails. Any ideas what might work?
Thanks,
Joel

~ is understood only by the shell. And not by every shell either.
Korn and Bourne-again shell (ksh and bash) understand it, I would conjecture, Bourne shell (good old sh) does not.

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