[android-developers] How to load web page in background

2012-03-27 Thread rk
How to load web page in background ? As part of my application, Im supposed to present a web-page to the user. The webpage is about .5M (has lot of images and js), so i cant fire an activity, as user has to see the page loading for considerable amount of time, if user is on slow network

Re: [android-developers] How to load web page in background

2012-03-27 Thread Lucas Diego
I think u could use HttpClient from http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/ if you try something like this, it might be useful: * HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet(http://www.your_url.com); HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpget);

Re: [android-developers] How to load web page in background

2012-03-27 Thread Rama Krishna
Thanks Lucas, Have a small question on the following, entity.consumeContent(); if (entity != null) { entity.consumeContent(); } after consuming, why should we again check for null and consume again ? Can we use

Re: [android-developers] How to load web page in background

2012-03-27 Thread Lucas Diego
Actually we don't need the first consumeContent(); it was a part of test code and I forgot to take it off. :-D well... I had never used SerializableEntity, so I can't say whether it works or not. I think u can create a class or method that returns the html page's code and then showing it in a