Get data from url in android

Question

I want to get data from url. in this case I've got complete php that data convert to json already and run in localhost (http://localhost/adchara1/index.php/?year=1)

This is the php script

<?php
 mysql_connect("localhost","root","");
 mysql_select_db("test");
 $q=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM people
 WHERE
 birthyear>'".$_REQUEST['year']."'");
 while($e=mysql_fetch_assoc($q))
         $output[]=$e;
   print(json_encode($output));
   mysql_close(); ?>

and this is result

[{"id":"1","name":"kongkea","sex":"1","birthyear":"1990"}, {"id":"2","name":"thida","sex":"0","birthyear":"2000"}]?>

I want to use button click and show this result in textview

Answer 1

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void> mTask;
String jsonString;

String url = "https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?include_entities=true&include_rts=true&screen_name=50cent&count=2";


Button b;

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    getActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);

    b = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnFetch);
    final TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.txtView);

    mTask = new AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void> () {

        @Override
        protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) {
            try {
                jsonString = getJsonFromServer(url);
            } catch (IOException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            return null;
        }

        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(Void result) {
            super.onPostExecute(result);

            tv.setText(jsonString);

        }

    };

    b.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

        public void onClick(View v) {
            mTask.execute();
        }
    });
}


public static String getJsonFromServer(String url) throws IOException {

    BufferedReader inputStream = null;

    URL jsonUrl = new URL(url);
    URLConnection dc = jsonUrl.openConnection();

    dc.setConnectTimeout(5000);
    dc.setReadTimeout(5000);

    inputStream = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
            dc.getInputStream()));

    // read the JSON results into a string
    String jsonResult = inputStream.readLine();
    return jsonResult;
}

}

After Getting jsonString from server with this method, you can parse and show the data in the Json.

EDIT: You get error because you are trying to get json from server out of async task.You need to do it in the background. You can either use a thread or use AsyncTask.