Escape string from EditText

Question

I was just wondering, if I have an EditText that I'm turning the content of into a string, say

String queryStr = new String(searchText.getText().toString());

How would I go about escaping special characters from this string so that I could put it into an HttpGet method? Thanks!

Answer 1

Use java.net.URLEncoder:

java.net.URLEncoder.encode(queryStr, "UTF-8");

Answer 2

Try:

TextUtils.htmlEncode(queryStr);

I think that should do what you want.