Yes, I did think I may need to do something like that... I didnt know if there was an easier way of doing it.
What does "You can try-catch and make an URL object from the entered text - if it succeed you have a valid URL to show." mean? is this some sort of function/method to check if a given string is an URL? If it is, any documentation? Thank you. On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Nobu Games <[email protected]> wrote: > Make yourself familiar with regular expressions and try to evaluate the > input string for matching known URL address patterns. The problem here is, > that your pattern matching must not be strict. So you also need to allow > input like > > www.domain.com > domain.com > > without http(s) protocol prefix which will be the most likely user input. > Unfortunately that is a malformed URL and you need to auto-complete it so > it gets valid: > > www.domain.com --> http://www.domain.com/ > > Everything that does *not *match your URL pattern should be treated as > search query. You could pass on that query to Google or whatever search > engine of your choice. > > > > On Monday, August 5, 2013 2:10:07 PM UTC-5, SonyPhoneGuy wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I would like to make a search interface on android with Eclipse. >> >> I have managed to add a search box on my form by using the menu xml which >> shows on the form action bar. I also have an webview on my form that is to >> load what is entered into the search box. >> >> I was wondering if there was an easy way to do websearch (if the entered >> term is not a webresource) or to display the webpage if the search term is >> correct ... rather like how the native browser does it on android. >> >> Thank you. >> > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Android Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/android-developers/fBGsVjD2C4k/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
