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Android

Posted by Chris Collins
Chris Collins
2,490 Points

Opening a Webpage Within the App code challenge part 3

hey guys, heres the question

Now get the URI that you passed in as the data for the Intent. Convert it to a String URL and store it in the 'mUrl' member variable.

and here is what i have done so far

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.webkit.WebView;

public class WebViewActivity extends Activity {

    protected String mUrl;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_web_view);

        WebView webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView1);

      Intent intent = getIntent();
      Uri blogUri = intent.getData();





    }
}

im not really sure how to store blogUri in mUrl can anyone point me in the right direction?

1 Answer

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

You are so close! Just one more step and you're done. mUrl is a String variable (see its declaration above the onCreate() method). blogUri is being set property as a Uri object. So all you need to do is convert blogUri to a String and set that as the value for mUrl.

In Java, you can very often use a method called toString() to convert an object into a String representation of it. It doesn't work for everything, but why don't you see what happens when you call toString() on the blogUri variable? :smile:

Chris Collins
Chris Collins
2,490 Points

thanks ben

looking forward to the android Build a Self-Destructing Message App

:)

Brian Chewning
Brian Chewning
7,270 Points

I am unable to figure out what i am doing wrong,

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.webkit.WebView;

public class WebViewActivity extends Activity {

protected String mUrl;

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_web_view);

    WebView webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView1);

    // Add code here!
  Intent intent = getIntent();
mUrl toString(blogUri) = intent.getData();
}

} what am I missing?

Brian Chewning
Brian Chewning
7,270 Points

Never mind I got it.