Read remote text file in android

Question

I am very new to android development so forgive my ignorance. I need to be able to read some text from a remote webpage at say 15 minute intervals. The webpage itself contains just one word with no html tags or formatting. If this is possible if someone could point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it.

Thanks

Answer 1

Sure, try the following

try {
    // Create a URL for the desired page
    URL url = new URL("yoursite.com/thefile.txt");

    // Read all the text returned by the server
    BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(url.openStream()));
    String str = in.readLine();
    in.close();
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
} catch (IOException e) {
}

Answer 2

You might want to put "in.close()" in a finally {} clause, to make sure it always closes