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I’ve got my own implementation of this wrapped up in a function that takes a URL argument but I can’t help thinking there must be a nice function that does this already within the Android API.
Does such a function exist?
EDIT: Oops. I would just like the text – not the HTML.
Considering you’re pulling the content via http, you’re going to have to parse out the HTML elements. The only way around this would be if you’re calling a script that will return data in other formats based on a query string, which doesn’t sound like what you’re asking.
If you’d like a good example of how to parse out the HTML, check out the Wiktionary sample on http://d.android.com, specifically the files:
pulls the page contents from the
stream
which parses out the HTML (using
RegEx) into content used in the
application.
I doubt that fully answers your question, but I hope it steers you in the right direction.