Convert String to Uri

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How can I convert a String to a Uri in Java  Android   i e    String myUrl    http   stackoverflow com     myUri

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I am just using the java net package  Here you can do the following      import java net URI       String myUrl    quot http   stackoverflow com quot   URI myURI   new URI myUrl

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Java s parser in java net URI is going to fail if the URI isn t fully encoded to its standards  For example  try to parse  http   www google com search q cat dog  An exception will be thrown for the vertical bar   urllib makes it easy to convert a string to a java net URI  It will pre-process and escape the URL    assertEquals  http   www google com search q cat 7Cdog       Urls createURI  http   www google com search q cat dog   toString

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What are you going to do with the URI   If you re just going to use it with an HttpGet for example  you can just use the string directly when creating the HttpGet instance   HttpGet get   new HttpGet  http   stackoverflow com

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You can use the parse static method from Uri       import android net Uri         Uri myUri   Uri parse  quot http   stackoverflow com quot

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You can parse a String to a Uri by using Uri parse   as shown below   Uri myUri   Uri parse  http   stackoverflow com      The following is an example of how you can use your newly created Uri in an implicit intent  To be viewed in a browser on the users phone      Creates a new Implicit Intent  passing in our Uri as the second paramater  Intent webIntent   new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW  myUri       Checks to see if there is an Activity capable of handling the intent if  webIntent resolveActivity getPackageManager       null       startActivity webIntent       NB  There is a difference between Androids URI and Uri

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If you are using Kotlin and Kotlin android extensions  then there is a beautiful way of doing this   val uri   myUriString toUri     To add Kotlin extensions  KTX  to your project add the following to your app module s build gradle    repositories       google      dependencies       implementation  androidx core core-ktx 1 0 0-rc01

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