Mark,
Thanks for the help here. Total noob.
So I tried some of the code in the tutorial out but I'm not receiving
anything - that I'm seeing. Right now I'm just trying to pull a line
of text (baby steps). Here's what I've got.
String myOutput = "nothing was pulled";
try {
// Create a URL for the desired page
URL url = new URL("http://breezylabs.com:80/quotes.txt";);
// Read all the text returned by the server
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader
(url.openStream()));
String str;
while ((str = in.readLine()) != null) {
myOutput = str;
}
in.close();
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
} catch (IOException e) {
}
//put string myOutput into a TextView
Notice I initialized the string myOutput with data already. This
tells me if I pulled anything from the server because if I did it
would change.
Can you see something I cant?
On Feb 24, 7:55 pm, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote:
> Breezy wrote:
> > Is there any good pre-defined classes that make downloading an XML
> > file off the internet a snap? What about txt files, anything pretty
> > easy and "light"?
>
> URLConnection and the Apache HttpClient classes are both in Android.
> Both are used extensively in regular Java, outside of Android, as well.
>
> You will find URLConnection tutorials here:
>
> http://www.exampledepot.com/egs/java.net/pkg.html
>
> And HttpClient examples here:
>
> http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client/examples.html
>
> > On top of that, how would I go about parsing an XML file? Pulling
> > line by line off of a txt file isn't hard, but I think an XML file
> > would be more organized. Any good tutorials on parsing an XML?
>
> Android has DOM, SAX, and XmlPullParser. The first two are (API-wise)
> straight out of standard Java, so there are many books and tutorials
> available, such as those at:
>
> http://www.exampledepot.com/egs/javax.xml.parsers/pkg.html
>
> XmlPullParser is described at:
>
> http://xmlpull.org/
>
> --
> Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com
> _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 2.0 Published!
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