Question

Hello this is my code

String url = "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%%3ASearch&search="+q.getAuthor().replace(" ","%20")+"";
                Uri uri = Uri.parse(url);
                Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, uri);

but it is not showing the result instead it shows web page you requested is temporarily down

is there anything wrong with the code or what

thanks in advance…

Answer 1

He shouldn’t need the Internet permission since this is just launching an intent that the browser is going to pick up.

my guess is either that your device is offline (no 3g/4g, and no wifi) or your url is not working correctly.

make a log statement that prints your url before you parse it to a uri. Then copy the url out of your log and paste it into a browser and see if it loads.

You might consider not doing the urlencoding manually with String.replace();

Java provides you with URLEncoder which has static methods that will handle the encoding for you.

Just encode all of your parameter and then append them to your base url.