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Android

Jonathan Etienne
Jonathan Etienne
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Posted by Jonathan Etienne
Jonathan Etienne
24,572 Points

Unexpected error prompted from calling "webView.loadUrl(mUrl)"

Good day all,

I am going through the blogreader section, and have stumbled upon the following issues during the "Easy Sharing" module.

"webView.loadUrl(mUrl)"

I sense that this the source of the problem, because I try commenting out various part of the code, until I realized that when this line was commented it would not crash, but it wasn't the error would be prompted.

The entire code that i use is the following (in the BlogView activity java file):

package com.dooba.blogreader;

import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity; import android.support.v7.app.ActionBar; import android.support.v4.app.Fragment; import android.app.Activity; import android.content.Intent; import android.net.Uri; import android.os.Bundle; import android.view.LayoutInflater; import android.view.Menu; import android.view.MenuItem; import android.view.View; import android.view.ViewGroup; import android.webkit.WebView; import android.os.Build;

public class BlogWebViewActivity extends Activity {

protected String mUrl;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_blog_web_view);

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

    WebView webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView1); 
    webView.loadUrl(mUrl); 
}

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_blog_web_view, menu);
    return true;
}

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    int itemId = item.getItemId();

    if (itemId == R.id.action_share) {
        sharePost();
    }

    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
} 

private void sharePost() {
    Intent shareIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
    shareIntent.setType("text/plain");
    shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, mUrl);
    startActivity(Intent.createChooser(shareIntent, getString(R.string.share_chooser_title)));
}

}

Thanks in advance for your time, and effort into helping me resolve this dilemma.