In this example when you click on the button and the system will retrieve data from url. For main Activity you can use the code from my other examples.
If there is something that is unclear, feel free to ask.
package com.example.testingdownload;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.TextView;
/**
* @author Peter Gostincar
*/
public class MainFragment extends Fragment {
private Button mCallButton;
private TextView mTextView;
private String mFetchedString;
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup parent, Bundle savedInstanceState){
View v = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_main, parent, false);
mTextView = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.view_text);
mCallButton = (Button) v.findViewById(R.id.call_button);
mCallButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
new FetchContent().execute();
}
});
return v;
}
public void doUpdate() {
if(getActivity() == null || mTextView == null)
return;
if(mFetchedString != null){
mTextView.setText(mFetchedString);
}
}
private class FetchContent extends AsyncTask {
@Override
protected String doInBackground(Void... params) {
try {
/** download data */
return new Fetcer().retriveJsonData();
} catch (Exception e) {
// TODO: handle exception
}
return null;
}
@Override
protected void onPostExecute(String result){
mFetchedString = result;
doUpdate();
}
}
}
package com.example.testingdownload;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import org.json.JSONTokener;
/**
* @author Peter Gostincar
*/
public class Fetcer {
String url = "http://.../script_json.php (appended at the bottom)";
private static final String JSON_ID = "id";
private static final String JSON_NAME = "name";
public byte[] getUrlBytes(String urlSpec) throws IOException{
URL url = new URL(urlSpec);
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
try {
ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
InputStream in = connection.getInputStream();
if(connection.getResponseCode() != HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK)
return null;
int bytesRead = 0;
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
while((bytesRead = in.read(buffer)) > 0){
out.write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
}
out.close();
return out.toByteArray();
} finally {
connection.disconnect();
}
}
public String retriveJsonData() {
StringBuilder ret = new StringBuilder();
try {
String jsonString = (new String(getUrlBytes(url)));
//Parse to json array
JSONArray array = (JSONArray) new JSONTokener(jsonString.toString()).nextValue();
for(int i = 0; i < array.length(); i++){
JSONObject json = array.getJSONObject(i);
ret.append(json.getString(JSON_NAME));
ret.append(json.getInt(JSON_ID));
ret.append(System.getProperty("line.separator"));
}
System.out.println();
} catch (Exception e){
}
return ret.toString();
}
}
activity_main.xml
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:id="@+id/fragmentContainer" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" />
fragment_main.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:orientation="vertical" > <Button android:id="@+id/call_button" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="retrieve data" /> <TextView android:id="@+id/view_text" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="do not forget to set Manifest -Network-" /> </LinearLayout>
<?php
$arr = array(
array(
"id" => "1",
"name" => "Peter"
),
array(
"id" => "2",
"name" => "Rok"
),
array(
"id" => "3",
"name" => "Franci"
)
);
echo json_encode($arr);
?>
