can't call String.isEmpty() in android

Question

In my android application I can't use String.isEmpty() function which is situated in JDK 1.6. Android 2.1 lib doesn't have this function in java.lang.String class

I tried to input JRE System library to my project, because it has this function, but there was no effects.

How can I solve this problem and allow my application to use this function?

Answer 1

You can use android.text.TextUtils.isEmpty() instead. This method also checks to see if the String is null and has been available since API level 1.

if (TextUtils.isEmpty(str)) {     Log.d(TAG, "String is empty or null!"); } 

Answer 2

How can I solve this problem and allow my application to use this function?

You can't.

Use String.length() == 0 instead. It is backwards compatible all the way back to JDK 1.0 ... and with J2ME as well.

String.equals("") is another alternative.

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Are you sure that there is no way to configure Eclipse to put into a code classes from definite libraries?

Not if you want your app to run on a real Android device. Java / Android platforms intentionally make it hard for you to tinker with the behaviour of the core class libraries. For a start, you can only do it by modifying the Davlik equivalent of the bootclasspath or rt.jar file, and neither of these can be done within a running JVM.

That kind of tinkering has the risk of potentially breaking Java for other apps. Even assuming that you can't compromise Android app separation directly (because of the process/uid separation mentioned below), malicious tweaks to the (shared) Java core classes could still potentially allow one app to interfere with, or steal information from another app.