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How to download string from webpage in android

Norman Reedus273907-Nov-2014

I am making an app that will download a string from a website and display it. I tried many examples online and I've literally been searching for days for this, but I can't find a single solution.

From what I have read, I know I have to get the content of the url from another thread, but no tutorial showed me how to do this.

I have a textview on the layout and that will be where the html content will have to show up.

Can anybody show me an example of how this is done?

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Updated on 07-Nov-2014
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Anonymous User

Anonymous User

07-Nov-2014

What about something like this?

publicclassMyAsyncTaskextendsAsyncTask<String,Void,String>{@OverrideprotectedString doInBackground(String... requestUrl){String result =null;DefaultHttpClient httpClient =newDefaultHttpClient();HttpGet request =newHttpGet(requestUrl[0]);try{ResponseHandler<String> responseHandler =newBasicResponseHandler(); result = httpClient.execute(request, responseHandler);}catch(IOException e){Log.e("requestStringFromWebServer","Whoops!", e);} httpClient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();return result;}@Overrideprotectedvoid onPostExecute(String result){if(result !=null){// Handle the result from your request here...}}}

And kick it off with

String myUrlStr;// Initialize this to your urlnewMyAsyncTask().execute(myUrlStr);

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