[android-developers] Re: Retreivng data from internet source.

2009-03-22 Thread murphy
Thanks for the explanation. I found the files there alright so the code is working which is great. Now I need to access the files in the device to display their contents in a TextView in a screen. I've been trying to do something like this: String text = new String(istr);

[android-developers] Re: Retreivng data from internet source.

2009-03-22 Thread Mark Murphy
murphy wrote: Thanks for the explanation. I found the files there alright so the code is working which is great. Now I need to access the files in the device to display their contents in a TextView in a screen. I've been trying to do something like this: String text = new

[android-developers] Re: Retreivng data from internet source.

2009-03-22 Thread murphy
I'm using the code in this fashion: try{ URL myURL = new URL(http://www.indulec.ie/weather.txt;); URLConnection conn = myURL.openConnection(); conn.connect(); BufferedReader is = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader

[android-developers] Re: Retreivng data from internet source.

2009-03-22 Thread murphy
I've added in also the line FileInputStream fIn = openFileInput (news.txt); but I don't know what to do with it once I open it to be able to display it in my TextView in a new screen. On Mar 22, 3:59 pm, murphy howt...@hotmail.com wrote: I'm using the code in this fashion: try{            

[android-developers] Re: Retreivng data from internet source.

2009-03-22 Thread Mark Murphy
murphy wrote: I've added in also the line FileInputStream fIn = openFileInput (news.txt); but I don't know what to do with it once I open it to be able to display it in my TextView in a new screen. http://www.exampledepot.com/egs/java.io/ReadLinesFromFile.html -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)

[android-developers] Re: Retreivng data from internet source.

2009-03-22 Thread murphy
I've got it working now, I used this code to finish it: FileInputStream fIn = openFileInput(news.txt); InputStreamReader isr = null; char[] inputBuffer = new char[255]; String data = null; try{ isr = new

[android-developers] Re: Retreivng data from internet source.

2009-03-21 Thread Simon Depiets
Hi, you should try something like URL myURL = new URL(http://lol.com/lol.txt;); URLConnection conn = myURL.openConnection(); conn.connect(); BufferedReader is = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader (conn.getInputStream(), UTF8)); FileOutputStream fOut =

[android-developers] Re: Retreivng data from internet source.

2009-03-21 Thread Streets Of Boston
Your use of HttpGet is good. However, you cast an InputStream to a char-sequence when calling tv.setText((CharSequence)input);. This will give you a class-cast exception. Read char-data from the InputStream instead. Also, try to find out if 'entity' has some methods to get a String back that has

[android-developers] Re: Retreivng data from internet source.

2009-03-21 Thread murphy
Hi, I used the code you suggested Simon in this way, try{ URL myURL = new URL(http://www.indulec.ie/weather.txt;); URLConnection conn = myURL.openConnection(); conn.connect(); BufferedReader is = new BufferedReader(new

[android-developers] Re: Retreivng data from internet source.

2009-03-21 Thread Mark Murphy
Hi, I used the code you suggested Simon in this way, try{ URL myURL = new URL(http://www.indulec.ie/weather.txt;); URLConnection conn = myURL.openConnection(); conn.connect(); BufferedReader is = new BufferedReader(new

[android-developers] Re: Retreivng data from internet source.

2009-03-21 Thread murphy
I'm not receiving any error. Its just that when I click the button in my application which should call a function to go online and download data to the news.txt file, nothing happens. My Manifest reads as follows: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? manifest

[android-developers] Re: Retreivng data from internet source.

2009-03-21 Thread Mark Murphy
I'm not receiving any error. Ah, sorry. I was sifting through earlier messages in the thread and thought you were getting an error. Its just that when I click the button in my application which should call a function to go online and download data to the news.txt file, nothing happens. The

[android-developers] Re: Retreivng data from internet source.

2009-03-21 Thread Simon Depiets
2009/3/22 Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com: I'm not receiving any error. Ah, sorry. I was sifting through earlier messages in the thread and thought you were getting an error. Its just that when I click the button in my application which should call a function to go online and download

[android-developers] Re: Retreivng data from internet source.

2009-03-21 Thread murphy
I can't find /data/data/my.package.here/files. I don't seem to have a data folder. On Mar 22, 12:42 am, Simon Depiets sdepi...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/3/22 Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com: I'm not receiving any error. Ah, sorry. I was sifting through earlier messages in the thread

[android-developers] Re: Retreivng data from internet source.

2009-03-21 Thread Mark Murphy
I can't find /data/data/my.package.here/files. I don't seem to have a data folder. Are you working on the emulator, or the device? If it's the device, you probably cannot browse to the location using DDMS due to security restrictions. However, you should be able to use adb pull to pull the

[android-developers] Re: Retreivng data from internet source.

2009-03-21 Thread Simon Depiets
2009/3/22 Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com: I can't find /data/data/my.package.here/files. I don't seem to have a data folder. Are you working on the emulator, or the device? Be sure you look in the InternalMemory, not the SDCard aswell -- Lliane aka Simon Depiets Epita Promo 2011,42

[android-developers] Re: Retreivng data from internet source.

2009-03-21 Thread murphy
I'm working on the emulator using eclipse. I have a workspace for the project on my desktop. When I go into my application's folder my options are other folders like .setting, assets, res, bin and src. I don't know where to go to find the news.txt file. On Mar 22, 12:56 am, Mark Murphy

[android-developers] Re: Retreivng data from internet source.

2009-03-21 Thread Mark Murphy
I'm working on the emulator using eclipse. I have a workspace for the project on my desktop. When I go into my application's folder my options are other folders like .setting, assets, res, bin and src. I don't know where to go to find the news.txt file. Ah! You're looking in your project,

[android-developers] Re: Retreivng data from internet source.

2009-03-21 Thread murphy
Okay, I went to the Device's menu, selected Dev Tools, then went to Package Browser and found my package, selected it and was then brought to a screen displaying details. Under Data is written /data/data/ my.package.name. Don't know what any of it means. Couldn't see any sign of the text file.

[android-developers] Re: Retreivng data from internet source.

2009-03-21 Thread Mark Murphy
murphy wrote: Okay, I went to the Device's menu Sorry. Back up. You said you use Eclipse. Eclipse, with the Android plugin, has a perspective called DDMS. If you cannot find it, run the ddms program from the tools/ folder in your SDK, then select your running emulator in the table on the