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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.
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A text file on a server can be read with Javascript by downloading the file with Fetch / XHR and parsing the server response as text. Note that the file needs be on the same domain. If the file is on a different domain, then proper CORS response headers must be present.
setType("*/txt"); sharingIntent. putExtra(Intent. EXTRA_STREAM, file); startActivity(Intent. createChooser(sharingIntent, "share file with"));
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.
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