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android set TextView to html file

I need to get information from this website: http://rowans.diekantankys.nl/bonnen/index.php?id=4 (It's in dutch)
From line 36 and on is a table in which you can see the debt op people on this website:
<td>Marc</td>
<td>16.75</td>
</tr> <tr>
<td>Marlieke</td>
<td>7.27</td>
</tr> <tr>
<td>Anne Ruth</td>
<td>4.70</td>
but all the functions and methods that I found that should download an HTML file from a website/web-server to a string/array somehow fail, can anyone give me a method on which I can give my full error report?
My apology's if this is considered: "Not a real question", I don't know how to formulate this
Thanks in advance

I would recommend to use (http://jsoup.org "JSoup") to download the parse the HTML from URL
You can get the HTML as document and read the text on the elements
Document doc = Jsoup.connect("http://rowans.diekantankys.nl/bonnen/index.php?id=4").get();
In you case on this website , you need to get the text in the table body i.e., tbody
String table = doc.body().getElementsByTag("tbody").text()
So, you need to download the content first in an background thread and then update the TextView on UIThread.
new AsyncTask<Void, Integer, Long>(){
#Override
protected Long doInBackground(Void... params) {
try {
final Document doc = Jsoup.connect("http://rowans.diekantankys.nl/bonnen/index.php?id=4").get();
runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
String tableContent = doc.body().getElementsByTag("tbody").text();
// you can split the text and read it, as required.
textView.setText(tableContent);
}
});
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return null;
}
}.execute();
Hope it helps you. Let me know if any issue.

You have to download all the HTML content, put it into a string and parse manually the code. If you are interested in the values into that table, I would suggest you to search into the string that contains the downloaded HTML for a uniqui piece of string that identifies the beginning of the table (eg. search for '' tag and you put the HTML section of code of the table into a different variable. Then you proceed to parse manually that string searching for and and extracting the values with a loop. Another way would be use regular expressions but it becames more difficult if you're not faimiliar with them. It's not a relevant resource but in this android app, I did exactly what just explained https://github.com/rexromae/mytotem_android/blob/master/com.torvergata.mytotem/src/com/torvergata/mytotem/student/StudentLogin.java

Parse XML and put the data into spinner

I am new to andriod programming can any help on how to parse a xml file and put the data into a spinner please help.
The XML file link is as follows :http://www.ecb.int/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml
Thanks

since your xml file is large is better that use sax parser .for using from sax parser you should use DeafaultHandler class and override its methods and in its startElement method you should write thing same following for get values:
public void startElement(String arg0, String localName, String arg2,
Attributes attributes) throws SAXException {
currentElement = true;
if (localName.equals("marker")) {
String currency = attributes.getValue("currency ");
String rat= attributes.getValue("rat");
//and ...
}
}
}

parse json android and show it in textview

I am new to android developing, my website returns posts with following format in json:
post= {
'artist':'xxxx',
'title':'xxxx',
'text':'xxxx',
'url':'http://xxxx'
}
I know something about receiving a file from the net and saving it to a SD card, but I want to do it on fly, parse it and show in on some text view, can you please give me some simple code for this?
I tried searching but I can't find a good tutorial for this, so this is the last place I'm coming to solve my problem.

A good framework for parsing XML is Google's GSON.
Basically you could deserialize your XML as follows (import statements left out):
public class Post {
private String artist, title, text, url;
public Post() {} // No args constructor.
}
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Gson gson = new Gson();
String jsonString = readFromNetwork(); // Read JSON from network...
Post post = gson.fromJson(jsonString, Post.class);
// Use post instance populated with your JSON data.
}
}
Read more in GSON's user guide.

TagHandler to handle Youtube tag <iframe>?

I'm parsing html using Html.fromHtml(). My problem is that my html text has youtube embeded links (basically <iframe> tags)
So, since Html class does NOT support <iframe> tag, I need to define my own TagHandler to handle it. What I'm trying to do is to convert the <iframe> to a regular <a> tag so that it can be rendered correctly.
//convert this
<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xAEdMI2ZE88" frameborder="0" width="560" height="315"></iframe>
//To this
Click to Watch
My problem is that I couldn't find a way to get the src link of the youtube from the <iframe> tag.
Here is my TagHandler's handleTag() method:
#Override
public void handleTag(boolean opening, String tag, Editable output, XMLReader xmlReader) {
if (tag.equals("iframe")) {
if(opening) {
output.append("<a href=");
//How to get YouTube video link and append it?
}
else {
output.append("Click To Watch</a>");
}
}
}
Thanks in advance.

You can also use this regex.
htmlString.replaceAll("<iframe\\s+.*?\\s+src=(\".*?\").*?<\\/iframe>", "<a href=$1>CLICK TO WATCH</a>");

I, for now, took CommonsWare advice and modify the String before passing it to Html.fromHtml.
//Opening tag
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("<iframe src");
Matcher m = p.matcher(htmlString);
while (m.find())
htmlString= m.replaceAll("<a href");
//Closing tag
p = Pattern.compile("frameborder=.*</iframe>");
m = p.matcher(htmlString);
while (m.find())
htmlString= m.replaceAll(">CLICK TO WATCH</a>");

Parse HTML in Android

I am trying to parse HTML in android from a webpage, and since the webpage it not well formed, I get SAXException.
Is there a way to parse HTML in Android?

I just encountered this problem. I tried a few things, but settled on using JSoup. The jar is about 132k, which is a bit big, but if you download the source and take out some of the methods you will not be using, then it is not as big.
=> Good thing about it is that it will handle badly formed HTML
Here's a good example from their site.
File input = new File("/tmp/input.html");
Document doc = Jsoup.parse(input, "UTF-8", "http://example.com/");
//http://jsoup.org/cookbook/input/load-document-from-url
//Document doc = Jsoup.connect("http://example.com/").get();
Element content = doc.getElementById("content");
Elements links = content.getElementsByTag("a");
for (Element link : links) {
String linkHref = link.attr("href");
String linkText = link.text();
}

Have you tried using Html.fromHtml(source)?
I think that class is pretty liberal with respect to source quality (it uses TagSoup internally, which was designed with real-life, bad HTML in mind). It doesn't support all HTML tags though, but it does come with a handler you can implement to react on tags it doesn't understand.

String tmpHtml = "<html>a whole bunch of html stuff</html>";
String htmlTextStr = Html.fromHtml(tmpHtml).toString();

We all know that programming have endless possibilities.There are numbers of solutions available for a single problem so i think all of the above solutions are perfect and may be helpful for someone but for me this one save my day..
So Code goes like this
private void getWebsite() {
new Thread(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
final StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
try {
Document doc = Jsoup.connect("http://www.ssaurel.com/blog").get();
String title = doc.title();
Elements links = doc.select("a[href]");
builder.append(title).append("\n");
for (Element link : links) {
builder.append("\n").append("Link : ").append(link.attr("href"))
.append("\n").append("Text : ").append(link.text());
}
} catch (IOException e) {
builder.append("Error : ").append(e.getMessage()).append("\n");
}
runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
result.setText(builder.toString());
}
});
}
}).start();
}
You just have to call the above function in onCreate Method of your MainActivity
I hope this one is also helpful for you guys.
Also read the original blog at Medium

Maybe you can use WebView, but as you can see in the doc WebView doesn't support javascript and other stuff like widgets by default.
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView.html
I think that you can enable javascript if you need it.