How do you encode a URL in Android?
I thought it was like this:
final String encodedURL = URLEncoder.encode(urlAsString, "UTF-8");
URL url = new URL(encodedURL);
If I do the above, the http:// in urlAsString is replaced by http%3A%2F%2F in encodedURL and then I get a java.net.MalformedURLException when I use the URL.
Find Arabic chars and replace them with its UTF-8 encoding. some thing like this:
for (int i = 0; i < urlAsString.length(); i++) {
if (urlAsString.charAt(i) > 255) {
urlAsString = urlAsString.substring(0, i) + URLEncoder.encode(urlAsString.charAt(i)+"", "UTF-8") + urlAsString.substring(i+1);
}
}
encodedURL = urlAsString;