How to check if URL is valid in Android

Question

Use URLUtil to validate the URL as below.

 URLUtil.isValidUrl(url)

It will return True if URL is valid and false if URL is invalid.

URLUtil.isValidUrl(url);

If this doesn't work you can use:

Patterns.WEB_URL.matcher(url).matches();

I would use a combination of methods mentioned here and in other Stackoverflow threads:

public static boolean IsValidUrl(String urlString) {
    try {
        URL url = new URL(urlString);
        return URLUtil.isValidUrl(urlString) && Patterns.WEB_URL.matcher(urlString).matches();
    } catch (MalformedURLException ignored) {
    }
    return false;
}

If you are using from kotlin you can create a String.kt and write code bellow:

fun String.isValidUrl(): Boolean = Patterns.WEB_URL.matcher(this).matches()

Then:

String url = "www.yourUrl.com"
if (!url.isValidUrl()) {
    //some code
}else{
   //some code
}