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Android, Reading blank values

I'm new to android development, I trying to create a simply Pythagorean Calculator, I need help with reading if a lines blank, but still calculates instead of failing.
Here is my code
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.text.TextUtils;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.Toast;
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
private EditText sideAObj;
private EditText sideBObj;
private EditText sideCObj;
private EditText outputObj;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
sideAObj = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.SideAInput);
sideBObj = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.SideBInput);
sideCObj = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.SideCInput);
outputObj = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.OutputText);
}
public void calculateClick(View v){
try {
double sideA = Double.parseDouble(sideAObj.getText().toString());
double sideB = Double.parseDouble(sideBObj.getText().toString());
double sideC = Double.parseDouble(sideCObj.getText().toString());
if (sideAObj.getText().toString().equalsIgnoreCase("0")) {
double pt = Math.sqrt((sideC * sideC) - (sideB * sideB));
outputObj.setText(String.format("%.2f", pt));
}
}
catch (NumberFormatException ex){
Toast errMess = Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"Enter Numbers Only",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
errMess.show();
outputObj.setText(String.format("%2.f",0.00));
return;
}
}
public void clearClick(View v){
sideAObj.setText("");
sideBObj.setText("");
sideCObj.setText("");
outputObj.setText("");
sideAObj.requestFocus();
}
}
My program will calculate if their is a Zero on 1 line, but if I leave it blank the program fails entirely, whats the best way to prevent that.

It will obviously fail as it doesn't know how to parse a blank value into a double. Just use something like this during instantiation itself:
double sideB = (sideBObj.getText().toString() == "") ? 0 : (Double.parseDouble(sideBObj.getText().toString()));
double sideC = (sideCObj.getText().toString() == "") ? 0 : (Double.parseDouble(sideCObj.getText().toString()));
Basically, you will be assigning the value 0 if the edit text field is 0 else, you will parse the value entered to a double.
Assuming you want to consider a 0 if there is a blank edit text field.
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UPDATE
if(sideAObj.getText().toString() != ""){
double sideA = Double.parseDouble(sideAObj.getText().toString());
}

The simple solution for this problem would be to check each edittext whether they are blank or not and then perform the task.
Get the value of each Edittext to a int variable and then use loop and with the help of edittext.length() method verify if it is equal to 0, if yes, then assign a value to 0 to a new global variable, else assign the exact value to global variable.
and then perform the calculation with the new variables.
Sample code for better understanding :-
String a = et.getText().toString();
int l = a.length();
if (l == 0){
// set the value of global variable = 0;
} else {
// set the value of global variable = a {Actual Digit}
}

Arraylist of strings into one comma separated string

Trying to convert a Arraylist of strings into one big comma separated string.
However when I use the
String joined = TextUtils.join(", ", participants);
Debugger shows me size of 4 for participants however the joined value as "" therefore empty
private ArrayList<String> participants;
Not sure what is going wrong?
UPDATE:
List<String> list = new ArrayList<>();
list.add("Philip");
list.add("Paul Smith");
list.add("Raja");
list.add("Ez");
String s = TextUtils.join(", ", list);
This works when I have a list that I manually populate however below is how the code is working right now.
In the onCreate()
callApi(type);
String s = TextUtils.join(", ", participants);
getSupportActionBar().setTitle(s);
In callAPI():
JSONArray participantsR = sub.getJSONArray("referralParticipants");
Log.e("Participants length ", String.valueOf(participantsR.length()));
for (int i = 0; i < participantsR.length(); i++)
{
JSONObject object = participantsR.getJSONObject(i);
String firstname = (String) object.get("fullName");
participants.add(firstname);
Log.e("Times", String.valueOf(i));
}

I'm trying to reproduce your error and am unable to. Here is my code:
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_temp);
List<String> list = new ArrayList<>();
list.add("Philip Johnson");
list.add("Paul Smith");
list.add("Raja P");
list.add("Ezhu Malai");
String s = TextUtils.join(", ", list);
Log.d(LOGTAG, s);
}
My output is Philip Johnson, Paul Smith, Raja P, Ezhu Malai as expected.
Are you importing the correct TextUtils class?
android.text.TextUtils;
Given the new information, here is my approach:
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_temp);
callApi(type, new OnResponseListener<List<String>>() {
#Override public void onResponse(List<String> list) {
getSupportActionBar().setTitle(TextUtils.join(", ", list));
}
});
}
I don't know what networking library you're using, but you may have to define OnResponseListener as an interface. It's very easy:
public interface OnResponseListener<T> {
public void onResponse(T response);
}
You will then need to modify your callApi function to take an instance of OnResponseListener> and call it's onResponse method after completing the call.
I would recommend looking into the Volley library, and reading the Android documentation about simple network calls.

I use StringUtils.join from Apache Common Utilities.
The code is super-simple just the way you wanted,
StringUtils.join(participants,", ");
Works flawlessly for me.
EDIT
As requested, here is the StringUtils.java file for those who just want to use this single utility class and not the entire library.

I don't know what TextUtils does. This will do it.
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
for (String x : participants) {
sb.append(x);
sb.append(", ");
}
return sb.toString();
Easy enough, just use that.

Try with kotlin
val commaSeperatedString = listOfStringColumn.joinToString { it ->
"\'${it.nameOfStringVariable}\'" }
// output: 'One', 'Two', 'Three', 'Four', 'Five'

How to save number from user input?

Recently I've started to mess around with Android Studio and decided to make an app. I've made the most of my app, but I encounter a little problem. I need to memorize in a variable a number from user input, but I don't know how to that, I've tried solutions found on the internet, even here but I get an error.
Can somebody help me with some ideas or the code edited which I must put in my app ?
This is the java code for the activity:
public class calc_medie_teza extends ActionBarActivity implements View.OnClickListener {
EditText adaug_nota;
static final int READ_BLOCK_SIZE = 100;
TextView afisare;
TextView afisare2;
Button calc;
EditText note_nr;
EditText nota_teza;
int suma;
double medie;
double medieteza;
int nr_note = 0;
int notamedie;
int notateza;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_calc_medie_teza);
afisare = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.afisare);
afisare2 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.afisare2);
calc = (Button) findViewById(R.id.calc);
calc.setOnClickListener(this);
note_nr = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.note_nr);
nota_teza = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.nota_teza);
}
#Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_calc_medie_teza, menu); // creare meniu
return true;
}
#Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
int id = item.getItemId(); // meniu
return id == R.id.action_settings || super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
public void onClick(View v) // afisare medie
{
calcul_medie();
}
public void buton_adauga(View v)
{
if(note_nr == )
suma = suma + notamedie;
nr_note = nr_note + 1;
}
public double calcul_medie() // calculul mediei
{
medie = suma / nr_note;
medieteza = ((medie * 3)+ notateza)/4;
return medieteza;
}
Here is a photo with the activity: http://onlypro.ro/img/images/ootllv2f55hnwdgi0xlv.png
Basically the app needs to add the input number to variable when I press the "Adauga nota" [Add grade] button and then I have to insert the "teza" number and when press the "Calculeaza media" [Calculate] the app will then calculate the calcul_medie() and return a decimal number. Between "Introduceti notele aici" [Add grades here] and "Adaugata nota"[Add grade] I have a Number enter text, the same is between "Introduceti teza aici" [Add thesis bere] and "Calculeaza media" [Calculate]. I don't know how to store the number the user puts in and sum it in "notamedie" variable.
I hope you understand my problem.
For any questions you'll have I'll respond as soon as I can.
Thanks in advance !

Well, I think your probably asked how to get the input of the String from the UI and translate them into Integer/BigDecimal. If so, here is some solution:
first, you get get the string from the UI:
String input = note_nr.getText().toString().trim();
change the string input to integer/BigDecimal:
int number1 = Integer.parseInt(input);
BigDecimal number2 = new BigDecimal(input);
Correct me if misunderstood your questions. Thanks.

I did not understand the problem at all. Please clearly define the problem and use english if you can. As fas the I understood there will be a Edittext to which the user will input the value. Gets its value in the activity and then use it.
EditText edittext;
editext = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editext);
String value = edit text.getText().toString(); // the value that the user inputted in String data format
// Here for addition you will need the value in int or decimal for that
int valueInt = Integer.parse(value); // this will be the value in int type
double valueInt = = Double.parseDouble(value); // this will be the value (user inputted) in double data type ( which you will need if you want to use decimal numbers).

When you press a button just retrieve the appropriate value from the edittext in the following way
edittext = (EditText)layout.findViewById(R.id.txtDescription);
String string = edittext.getText().toString();

to retrieve the text do this
String string = note_nr.getText().toString();
// Converting String to int
int myValue =Integer.parseInt(string);

I tried that one more time, but the IDE says that the variable I used for "string" is never used, but I've used it.
number1= (EditText) findViewById(R.id.number1);
String number_1 = number1.getText().toString();
number2= (EditText) findViewById(R.id.number2);
String number_2= number2.getText().toString();

R3muSGFX, can you post the whole codes?
String number_1 = number1.getText().toString(); this line codes just mean that you initialized a String variable "number_1".
and you will used it when app perform a math function, like you wrote in the beginning:
public double calcul_medie()
{
medie = suma / nr_note;
medieteza = ((medie * 3)+ notateza)/4;
return medieteza;
}
but if you did not use "number_1" at all, IDE will imply you the warning message
:the variable I used for "string" is never used

Value of 1 array equals the value of another in Android

I have two arrays :
String []myExpressions = {"20+10","50+50","25+25","10+15"};
String []answers = {"30#","100#","50#","25#"};
When the user clicks the generate button it generates an expression from the array myExpressions and displays it in text-field. Then I require the user to enter the answer using the buttons provided. The answer is displayed in a EditText. When the user enters an answer they should enter a #(like a submit button) and if is the correct answer it should display correct in a text-field. So if the position in the expression array is 1, the correct answer is in the answer array in the same position. How would i check if they are in the same position?
For example: myExpressions[1] correct answer to this is answers[1].
Here is my code:
package com.gamesup.braingame;
import java.util.Random;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.TextView;
public class Easy extends Activity implements OnClickListener{
EditText display;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.easy);
display = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.displayText);
display.setText("?");
final String []myExpressions = {"20+10","50+50","25+25","10+15"};
final String []answers = {"30#","100#","50#","25#"};
final TextView displayExpression = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.expression);
Button generate = (Button) findViewById(R.id.random_gen);
generate.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
Random ranGenerate = new Random ();
int random = ranGenerate.nextInt(4) ;
displayExpression.setText(myExpressions[random]);
}
});
}
static boolean isEmpty = true;
public void num_Clicked(View v){
Button btn = (Button) findViewById(v.getId());
//getting the button object and using a view to get the id of the buttons
if (v.getId()== R.id.del_button){
String s = display.getText().toString();
s = s.substring(0, s.length() - 1);
display.setText(s);
return;
}
if(isEmpty){
display.setText(btn.getText());
isEmpty = false;
}
else{
display.append(btn.getText().toString());
// storing the existing number into editText and current text is set
//to current button value
//display.setText(number+btn.getText().toString());
//the total in the editText
}
if (v.getId()== R.id.hash_button){
String userAns = display.getText().toString();
}
}
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
}

For starters arrays in Java Begin at Index 0 so therefore , to compare the first items of the Array you should be using something like this to check if things are equal:
EditText myAnswer = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.myAnswer);
String answer = myAnswer.getText().toString();
// Notice my loop starts at 0 because the first index of an array is 0
for(int i = 0 ; i < answers.length; i++)
{
if(answers[i].equals(answer))
{
// Congratulate the User for getting it Right
}
}
It seems as though you have a little bit of a shaky logic. IMHO you should be using a multidimensional Array.
With a multidimensional Array you can essentially set up keys and values.
This is how I think your application should be configures
// This Array says , I am an array that holds arrays
String [][] multiArray = {{"4 + 5", "9"},
{"20 * 3","60"},
{"99 - 9","90"}};
// Fetch your random question, since we know our questions are the first item in out Array we can use the index [x][0] depending on the index you pull from
String question = multiArray[0][0];
// To do this randomly
Random ranGenerate = new Random ();
int random = ranGenerate.nextInt(4) ;
String question = multiArray[random][0];
// Get the Answer from yout EditText
String answer = myAnswer.getText().toString();
// Using a for loop iterate on the base index
for(int i = 0; i < multiArray.length ; i++)
{
// if the answer is in position 1 of Array [i]
if(answer.equals(mutliArray[i][1])
{
// We have found the answer, Congratulate the User
}else{
// Tell them how bad they are since they can't solve simple equations!
// ....joking obviously we would be nice and let them know its not the answer
}
}

In this line
int random = ranGenerate.nextInt(4) ;
why don't you make random an instance variable inside your class? This way you would preserve the index, and you would know which index to use to compare the answer.

Anything better than JSoup for Android?

What I want to do...
I have a webview in my android app. I get a huge html content from the server as a string and a search string from the application user(the android phone user). Now I break the search string and create a regex out of it. I want all the html content that matches my regex to be highlighted when I display it into my WebView.
What I tried...
Since it is html, I just want to wrap the regex matched words into a pair of tags with yellow background.
Simple regex and replaceAll on the html Content that i get. Very wrong because it screws and replaces even what is inside the '<' and '>'.
I tried using Matcher and Pattern combo. It is difficult to omit what is inside the tags.
I used JSOUP Parser and it worked!
I traverse the html using NodeTraversor class. I used Matcher and Pattern classes to find and replace matched words with tags as i wanted to do.
But it is very slow. And I basically want to use it on Android and the size of it is like 284kB. I removed some unwanted classes and it is now 201kB but it is still too much for an android device. Additionally, the html content can be really large. I looked into JSoup source as well. It kind of iterates over every single character when it parses. I do not know whether all the parsers do the same but it is definitely slow for large html documents.
Here is my code -
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
public class Highlighter {
private String regex;
private String htmlContent;
Pattern pat;
Matcher mat;
public Highlighter(String searchString, String htmlString) {
regex = buildRegexFromQuery(searchString);
htmlContent = htmlString;
pat = Pattern.compile(regex, Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
}
public String getHighlightedHtml() {
Document doc = Jsoup.parse(htmlContent);
final List<TextNode> nodesToChange = new ArrayList<TextNode>();
NodeTraversor nd = new NodeTraversor(new NodeVisitor() {
#Override
public void tail(Node node, int depth) {
if (node instanceof TextNode) {
TextNode textNode = (TextNode) node;
String text = textNode.getWholeText();
mat = pat.matcher(text);
if(mat.find()) {
nodesToChange.add(textNode);
}
}
}
#Override
public void head(Node node, int depth) {
}
});
nd.traverse(doc.body());
for (TextNode textNode : nodesToChange) {
Node newNode = buildElementForText(textNode);
textNode.replaceWith(newNode);
}
return doc.toString();
}
private static String buildRegexFromQuery(String queryString) {
String regex = "";
String queryToConvert = queryString;
/* Clean up query */
queryToConvert = queryToConvert.replaceAll("[\\p{Punct}]*", " ");
queryToConvert = queryToConvert.replaceAll("[\\s]*", " ");
String[] regexArray = queryString.split(" ");
regex = "(";
for(int i = 0; i < regexArray.length - 1; i++) {
String item = regexArray[i];
regex += "(\\b)" + item + "(\\b)|";
}
regex += "(\\b)" + regexArray[regexArray.length - 1] + "[a-zA-Z0-9]*?(\\b))";
return regex;
}
private Node buildElementForText(TextNode textNode) {
String text = textNode.getWholeText().trim();
ArrayList<MatchedWord> matchedWordSet = new ArrayList<MatchedWord>();
mat = pat.matcher(text);
while(mat.find()) {
matchedWordSet.add(new MatchedWord(mat.start(), mat.end()));
}
StringBuffer newText = new StringBuffer(text);
for(int i = matchedWordSet.size() - 1; i >= 0; i-- ) {
String wordToReplace = newText.substring(matchedWordSet.get(i).start, matchedWordSet.get(i).end);
wordToReplace = "<b>" + wordToReplace+ "</b>";
newText = newText.replace(matchedWordSet.get(i).start, matchedWordSet.get(i).end, wordToReplace);
}
return new DataNode(newText.toString(), textNode.baseUri());
}
class MatchedWord {
public int start;
public int end;
public MatchedWord(int start, int end) {
this.start = start;
this.end = end;
}
}
}
Here is how I call it -
htmlString = getHtmlFromServer();
Highlighter hl = new Highlighter("Hello World!", htmlString);
new htmlString = hl.getHighlightedHTML();
I am sure what i'm doing is not the most optimal way. But I can't seem to think of anything else.
I want to
- reduce the time it takes to highlight it.
- reduce the size of library
Any suggestions?

How about highlighting them using javascript?
You know, everybody love javascript, and you can find example like this blog.

JTidy and HTMLCleaner are aloso among the best Java HTML Parser.
see
Comparison between different Java HTML Parser
and
What are the pros and cons of the leading Java HTML parsers?