Reading Text File From Server on Android

Question

I have a text file on my server. I want to open the text file from my Android App and then display the text in a TextView. I cannot find any examples of how to do a basic connection to a server and feed the data into a String.

Any help you can provide would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Try the following:

try {     // Create a URL for the desired page     URL url = new URL("mysite.com/thefile.txt");      // Read all the text returned by the server     BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(url.openStream()));     String str;     while ((str = in.readLine()) != null) {         // str is one line of text; readLine() strips the newline character(s)     }     in.close(); } catch (MalformedURLException e) { } catch (IOException e) { } 

(taken from Exampledepot: Getting text from URL)

Should work well on Android.