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Android Build a Blog Reader Android App Getting Data from the Web Moving Work from the Main Thread to an AsyncTask

Posted by Richard Walsh
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Richard Walsh
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 6,566 Points

Issue with connection.getContentLength();

When I follow this project and use my own url, I return a -1 on int contentLength = connection.getContentLength();

I can render this json file fine in iOS, Any Web Browser as well. There is even a header in the file that indicates the content-length. Could it be that it's a large value? 110241.

1 Answer

Ben Jakuben
STAFF
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Jakuben
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher

Hi Richard,

You're bumping into a known bug with the code. :-/ Sorry about that! I have a note in the Teacher's Notes section that links to a forum post with alternate code you can use.

EDIT: Pasted wrong link. Fixed!