Question

I have two activitys with lists.

One for tablet’s and one for regular density phones.
When an item in the list is clicked it launches the same activity for either activity with list’s.

The problem is when an item is clicked i have getter and setter class that gets the URL for a particular item and passes it to the launching activity like this…

    private String URL = null;
try{
        URL = com.fttech.AbstractFeedsActivity.feed_url;

    }
    catch(IllegalArgumentException e){
        e.printStackTrace();
        URL = com.fttech.ItemsActivity.url;

    }

As you see what i tried to do is try and catch.
So if the first one isnt found then the second one will be retrieved.

But it doesnt seem to work.

It returns null each time.

For what i have describe what is the best way to implement this?
Is my way logic? Or is there a better way.

Thanks

Answer 1

Try this,

     private String URL = null;
     try{
            URL = com.fttech.AbstractFeedsActivity.feed_url;
            if(TextUtils.isEmpty(URL)){
                 URL = com.fttech.ItemsActivity.url;
                 // Pass this URL   
            }
            else{
              // If its not empty then it will pass the first URL
          }
        }
        catch(IllegalArgumentException e){
            e.printStackTrace();
        }