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Asked: 2026-06-12T10:08:14+00:00

I’ve created an app where the user enters a name and when the button

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I’ve created an app where the user enters a name and when the button send is pressed the form from a remote server will be filled from the user input. but somehow its not working, its not filling the input box, I’m not getting any error so I’m not sure whats wrong.

here’s my code for the mainactivity.java

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    Button send;
    EditText name;

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

        name = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.etFName);
        send = (Button) findViewById(R.id.bSend);

        final String sname = name.getText().toString();

        send.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

            public void onClick(View v) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                new Thread(new Runnable()
                {
                    public void run()
                    {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        HttpClient postClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
                        String postReq = "http://10.0.2.2/formcode.php";
                        HttpPost request = new HttpPost(postReq);
                        List<NameValuePair> postParams = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
                        postParams.add(new BasicNameValuePair("element_8_1", sname));
                        UrlEncodedFormEntity postEntity = null;
                        try {
                            postEntity = new UrlEncodedFormEntity(postParams);
                        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
                            e.printStackTrace();
                        }

                        request.setEntity(postEntity);

                        HttpResponse response = null;
                        try {
                            response = postClient.execute(request);
                        } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
                            e.printStackTrace();
                        } catch (IOException e) {
                            e.printStackTrace();
                        }
                    }
                }).start();

                String url = "http://10.0.2.2/formcode.php";
                Intent intent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW,  Uri.parse(url));
                startActivity(intent);
            }
        });
    }
}

thanks in advance.

EDITED

here is the site code

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>App Test Form</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./data/form_6/css/view.css" media="all" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/view.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/calendar.js"></script>
</head>
<body id="main_body" >

    <img id="top" src="images/top.png" alt="" />
    <div id="form_container">

        <h1><a>App Test Form</a></h1>
        <form id="form_6" class="digitalfuture"  method="post" action="#main_body">
                    <div class="form_description">
            <h2>App Test Form</h2>
            <p></p>
        </div>                      
            <ul >

                    <li id="li_8" >
        <label class="description">Name <span id="required_8" class="required">*</span></label>
        <span>
            <input id="element_8_1" name= "element_8_1" class="element text" maxlength="255" size="8" value="" />
            <label>First</label>
        </span>
        <span>
            <input id="element_8_2" name= "element_8_2" class="element text" maxlength="255" size="14" value="" />
            <label>Last</label>
        </span><p class="guidelines" id="guide_8"><small>Please tell us your name</small></p> 
        </li>       <li id="li_9" >
        <label class="description">Phone Number <span id="required_9" class="required">*</span></label>
        <span>
            <input id="element_9_1" name="element_9_1" class="element text" size="3" maxlength="3" value="" type="text" /> -
            <label for="element_9_1">(###)</label>
        </span>
        <span>
            <input id="element_9_2" name="element_9_2" class="element text" size="3" maxlength="3" value="" type="text" /> -
            <label for="element_9_2">###</label>
        </span>
        <span>
            <input id="element_9_3" name="element_9_3" class="element text" size="4" maxlength="4" value="" type="text" />
            <label for="element_9_3">####</label>
        </span>
        <p class="guidelines" id="guide_9"><small>Please tell us your phone number</small></p> 
        </li>       <li id="li_10" >
        <label class="description">Alternate Phone Number </label>
        <span>
            <input id="element_10_1" name="element_10_1" class="element text" size="3" maxlength="3" value="" type="text" /> -
            <label for="element_10_1">(###)</label>
        </span>
        <span>
            <input id="element_10_2" name="element_10_2" class="element text" size="3" maxlength="3" value="" type="text" /> -
            <label for="element_10_2">###</label>
        </span>
        <span>
            <input id="element_10_3" name="element_10_3" class="element text" size="4" maxlength="4" value="" type="text" />
            <label for="element_10_3">####</label>
        </span>
        <p class="guidelines" id="guide_10"><small>Please tell us an alternate phone number to contact you at</small></p> 
        </li>       <li id="li_11" >
        <label class="description" for="element_11">Email <span id="required_11" class="required">*</span></label>
        <div>
            <input id="element_11" name="element_11" class="element text medium" type="text" maxlength="255" value="your@email.com" /> 
        </div> 
        </li>

    </div>
    <img id="bottom" src="images/bottom.png" alt="" />
    </body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    I think it may be because the value you’re sending in the parameters is blank. sname is set outside of the onClickListener so the value doesn’t update when the button is clicked. It just gets the value that’s already in the text box. I would recommend moving the code to an AsyncTask (There’s lots of good tutorials out there on this) as AnujAroshA suggested. You want to have something like this:

    private class SubmitForm extends AsyncTask<String, Void, Void>{
    @Override
    protected Void doInBackground(String... params) {
                String sName = params[0];

                // Rest of the code you had here
            }
}

    What this will do is create a task that runs in the background and not on the UI thread. Then to run it, just modify the onClickListener to say

    public void onClick(View v) {
    new SubmitForm().execute(name.getText().toString());
}

    So then this will actually start the riequest. It’s similar to the way you had it with Threads but a bit more android offical.

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