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Trying to fetch mysql data in android listview

Hello everyone I am trying to fetch data from mysql database in android ListView,
Following code is throwing java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException
I am new to Android Development, If anybody could guide me through this it will be much help.
Thank You.
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.ProgressDialog;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.widget.ListView;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
public class Main_catagory_one extends Activity{
Activity context;
HttpPost httppost;
StringBuffer buffer;
HttpResponse response;
HttpClient httpclient;
ProgressDialog pd;
CustomAdapter adapter;
ListView listProduct;
ArrayList<Product> records;
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
//TODO Auto-generated method stub
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main1);
context=this;
records=new ArrayList<Product>();
listProduct=(ListView)findViewById(R.id.listView1);
adapter=new CustomAdapter(context, R.layout.list_view,R.id.textView3,
records);
listProduct.setAdapter(adapter);
}
public void onStart(){
super.onStart();
//execute background task
BackTask bt=new BackTask();
bt.execute();
}
//background process to make a request to server and list product information
private class BackTask extends AsyncTask<Void,Void,Void>{
protected void onPreExecute(){
super.onPreExecute();
pd = new ProgressDialog(context);
pd.setTitle("Retrieving data");
pd.setMessage("Please wait.");
pd.setCancelable(true);
pd.setIndeterminate(true);
pd.show();
}
protected Void doInBackground(Void...params){
InputStream is=null;
String result="";
try{
httpclient=new DefaultHttpClient();
httppost= new HttpPost("http://10.0.2.2/fetch_item/getproducts.php");
response=httpclient.execute(httppost);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
// Get our response as a String.
is = entity.getContent();
}catch(Exception e){
if(pd!=null)
pd.dismiss(); //close the dialog if error occurs
Log.e("ERROR", e.getMessage());
}
//convert response to string
try{
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is,"utf-8"),8);
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line = null;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line+"\n");
}
is.close();
result=sb.toString();
}catch(Exception e){
Log.e("ERROR", "Error converting result "+e.toString());
}
//parse json data
try{
// Remove unexpected characters that might be added to beginning of the string
result=result.substring(result.indexOf("["));
JSONArray jArray =new JSONArray(result);
for(int i=0;i<jArray.length();i++){
JSONObject json_data =jArray.getJSONObject(i);
Product p=new Product();
p.setpName(json_data.getString("Item_name"));
p.setuPrice(json_data.getString("Item_price"));
p.setpQauntity(json_data.getString("Item_quantity"));
p.setpImage(json_data.getString("Item_img"));
records.add(p);
}
}
catch(Exception e){
Log.e("ERROR", "Error pasting data "+e.toString());
}
return null;
}
protected void onPostExecute(Void result){
if(pd!=null) pd.dismiss(); //close dialog
Log.e("size", records.size() + "");
adapter.notifyDataSetChanged(); //notify the ListView to get new records
}
}
}

IndexOutOfBoundsException - if beginIndex is negative or larger than
the length of this String object.
You should get used to using the API. It tells you what exceptions a method throws and why.
Try printing length of the string before and after doing substring.
For example...
String testing = "Hello World";
System.out.println("Length of testing = " + testing.length);
System.out.println("Value of testing = " + testing);
testing.substring(1,2);

Search in listview and show the result

how is it possible to parse some Json Data from web and put them in a listview.
Inside of them i would like to search something, I'm searching now for a while in the internet but I wasn't successfull.
I still can Parse JSON and pu them in a listview but how can I search?
Here my Code
MainAct.:
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.ProgressDialog;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.ListAdapter;
import android.widget.ListView;
import android.widget.SimpleAdapter;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
ListView list;
TextView ver;
TextView name;
TextView api;
Button Btngetdata;
ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>> oslist = new ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>>();
//URL to get JSON Array
private static String url = "*****";
//JSON Node Names
private static final String TAG_OS = "android";
private static final String TAG_VER = "ver";
private static final String TAG_NAME = "name";
private static final String TAG_API = "api";
JSONArray android = null;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
oslist = new ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>>();
Btngetdata = (Button)findViewById(R.id.getdata);
Btngetdata.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View view) {
new JSONParse().execute();
}
});
}
private class JSONParse extends AsyncTask<String, String, JSONObject> {
private ProgressDialog pDialog;
#Override
protected void onPreExecute() {
super.onPreExecute();
ver = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.vers);
name = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.name);
api = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.api);
pDialog = new ProgressDialog(MainActivity.this);
pDialog.setMessage("Getting Data ...");
pDialog.setIndeterminate(false);
pDialog.setCancelable(true);
pDialog.show();
}
#Override
protected JSONObject doInBackground(String... args) {
JSONParser jParser = new JSONParser();
// Getting JSON from URL
JSONObject json = jParser.getJSONFromUrl(url);
return json;
}
#Override
protected void onPostExecute(JSONObject json) {
pDialog.dismiss();
try {
// Getting JSON Array from URL
android = json.getJSONArray(TAG_OS);
for(int i = 0; i < android.length(); i++){
JSONObject c = android.getJSONObject(i);
// Storing JSON item in a Variable
String ver = c.getString(TAG_VER);
String name = c.getString(TAG_NAME);
String api = c.getString(TAG_API);
// Adding value HashMap key => value
HashMap<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();
map.put(TAG_VER, ver);
map.put(TAG_NAME, name);
map.put(TAG_API, api);
oslist.add(map);
list=(ListView)findViewById(R.id.list);
ListAdapter adapter = new SimpleAdapter(MainActivity.this, oslist,
R.layout.list_v,
new String[] { TAG_VER,TAG_NAME, TAG_API }, new int[] {
R.id.vers,R.id.name, R.id.api});
list.setAdapter(adapter);
list.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
#Override
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
int position, long id) {
Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "You Clicked at "+oslist.get(+position).get("name"), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
});
}
} catch (JSONException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}
JSONParser:
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import android.util.Log;
public class JSONParser {
static InputStream is = null;
static JSONObject jObj = null;
static String json = "";
// constructor
public JSONParser() {
}
public JSONObject getJSONFromUrl(String url) {
// Making HTTP request
try {
// defaultHttpClient
DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);
HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
is = httpEntity.getContent();
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
try {
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
is, "iso-8859-1"), 8);
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line = null;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line + "n");
}
is.close();
json = sb.toString();
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.e("Buffer Error", "Error converting result " + e.toString());
}
// try parse the string to a JSON object
try {
jObj = new JSONObject(json);
} catch (JSONException e) {
Log.e("JSON Parser", "Error parsing data " + e.toString());
}
// return JSON String
return jObj;
}
}

List<list> varr = yourlist;
for (list result : varr) {
// action such as.. if result
}
hope this help

JSON parsing error - not parse in google API 4.1 jelly bean

i am working on an app using json parsing...in this parsing is done by json of the given url.
As i run my project on emulator having target = "Google APIs (Google Inc.) - API level 10"
then it runs properly and shows needed results from the target url.
but when run my project on emulator having target = "Google APIs (Google Inc.) - API level 16"
then it shows error and it never parse the given url data and get force close.
i want to make app which run on every API level.
please help...
here's my code:
json parser class:
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import android.util.Log;
public class JSONParser {
static InputStream is = null;
static JSONArray jObj = null;
static String json = "";
static String req = "POST";
// constructor
public JSONParser() {
}
public JSONArray getJSONFromUrl(String url, String method) {
// Making HTTP request
try {
// defaultHttpClient
DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpResponse httpResponse = null;
if(method == req) {
HttpPost httpC = new HttpPost(url);
httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpC);
}else {
HttpGet httpC = new HttpGet(url);
httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpC);
}
HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
is = httpEntity.getContent();
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
try {
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
is, "iso-8859-1"), 8);
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line = null;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line + "\n");
}
is.close();
json = sb.toString();
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.e("Buffer Error", "Error converting result " + e.toString());
}
// try parse the string to a JSON object
try {
jObj = new JSONArray(json);
} catch (JSONException e) {
Log.e("JSON Parser", "Error parsing data " + e.toString());
}
// return JSON String
return jObj;
}
}
Another class using json parser class snd fetch data:
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import android.app.ListActivity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.widget.ListAdapter;
import android.widget.SimpleAdapter;
public class showData extends ListActivity{
public static String url = "http://something/something/";
public static final String TAG_A = "a";
public static final String TAG_B = "b";
public static final String TAG_C = "c";
public static final String TAG_D = "d";
public static final String TAG_E = "e";
public static final String TAG_F = "f";
public static final String GET = "get";
JSONArray Data1 = null;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>> contactList = new ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>>();
EditText editext_text = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.et);
String urlnew = url + editext_text.getText().toString();
Log.d("url", urlnew);
JSONParser jParser = new JSONParser();
// getting JSON string from URL
area1 = jParser.getJSONFromUrl(urlnew, GET);
Log.d("Json String", area1.toString());
try {
for(int i = 0; i < area1.length(); i++){
JSONObject c = area1.getJSONObject(i);
// Storing each json item in variable
String a = c.getString(TAG_A);
String b = c.getString(TAG_B);
String c = c.getString(TAG_C);
String d = c.getString(TAG_D);
String e = c.getString(TAG_E);
HashMap<String,String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();
// adding each child node to HashMap key => value
map.put(TAG_A, a);
map.put(TAG_B, b);
map.put(TAG_C, c);
map.put(TAG_D, d);
map.put(TAG_E, e);
// adding HashList to ArrayList
contactList.add(map);
}
} catch (JSONException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
ListAdapter adapter = new SimpleAdapter(this, contactList,
R.layout.list_item_area,
new String[] { TAG_B, TAG_A, TAG_C, TAG_D, TAG_E }, new int[] {
R.id.b, R.id.a, R.id.c, R.id.d, R.id.e });
setListAdapter(adapter);
}
}

You are getting a NetworkOnMainThreadException because as the name is self-explaining, you are doing network request on UI Thread that will make your application laggy and create an horrible experience.
The exception that is thrown when an application attempts to perform a
networking operation on its main thread.
This is only thrown for applications targeting the Honeycomb SDK or
higher. Applications targeting earlier SDK versions are allowed to do
networking on their main event loop threads, but it's heavily
discouraged. See the document Designing for Responsiveness.
You should use Threads or AsyncTask, do you need some explanations on how to use them?
private class NetworkTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String> {
#Override
protected String doInBackground(String... params) {
//DO YOUR STUFF
}
#Override
protected void onPostExecute(String result) {
//Update UI
}
#Override
protected void onPreExecute() {
}
#Override
protected void onProgressUpdate(Void... values) {
}
}

This is Network On Main Thread Exception, You have to use Thread for network connection, because the main thread is UI thread will not give any response for Network connection. Use separate thread for network connection

Android-Json parser not able to display data retrieved from back end

I am new to android. I am implementing a project in which I want to get the data from the back end and display on my android screen.
The Json I am trying to call is:-
[{"admin":null,"card_no":"8789","created_at":"2013-04-09T12:55:54Z","deleted":0,"email":"dfds#fgfd.com","entered_by":null,"first_name":"Gajanan","id":8,"last_name":"Bhat","last_updated_by":null,"middle_name":"","mobile":87981,"updated_at":"2013-04-13T05:26:25Z","user_type_id":null},{"admin":{"created_at":"2013-04-10T09:02:00Z","deleted":0,"designation":"Sr software Engineer","email":"admin#qwe.com","first_name":"Chiron","id":1,"last_name":"Synergies","middle_name":"Sr software Engineer","office_phone":"98789765","super_admin":false,"updated_at":"2013-04-10T12:03:04Z","username":"Admin"},"card_no":"66","created_at":"2013-04-08T09:47:15Z","deleted":0,"email":"rajaarun1991","entered_by":1,"first_name":"Arun","id":1,"last_name":"Raja\n","last_updated_by":1,"middle_name":"Nagaraj","mobile":941,"updated_at":"2013-04-08T09:47:15Z","user_type_id":1}]
My JsonParser.java is as follows:-
package com.example.library;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.StatusLine;
import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import android.util.Log;
import android.util.Log;
public class JSONParser {
static InputStream is = null;
static JSONArray jarray = null;
static String json = "";
// constructor
public JSONParser() {
}
public JSONArray getJSONFromUrl(String url) {
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(url);
try {
HttpResponse response = client.execute(httpGet);
StatusLine statusLine = response.getStatusLine();
int statusCode = statusLine.getStatusCode();
if (statusCode == 200) {
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
InputStream content = entity.getContent();
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(content));
String line;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
builder.append(line);
}
} else {
Log.e("==>", "Failed to download file");
}
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
// try parse the string to a JSON object
try {
jarray = new JSONArray( builder.toString());
} catch (JSONException e) {
Log.e("JSON Parser", "Error parsing data " + e.toString());
}
// return JSON String
return jarray;
}
}
/* public void writeJSON() {
JSONObject object = new JSONObject();
try {
object.put("name", "");
object.put("score", new Integer(200));
object.put("current", new Double(152.32));
object.put("nickname", "Programmer");
} catch (JSONException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
System.out.println(object);
}
*/
And my activity.java is as follows:-
package com.example.library;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.ListActivity;
import android.app.ProgressDialog;
import android.content.Context;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.widget.ListAdapter;
import android.widget.ListView;
import android.widget.SimpleAdapter;
public class SecondActivity extends Activity
{
private Context context;
private static String url = "http://192.168.0.100:3000/users.json";
private static final String TAG_ID = "id";
private static final String TAG_FIRST_NAME = "first_name";
private static final String TAG_MIDDLE_NAME = "middle_name";
private static final String TAG_LAST_NAME = "last_name";
// private static final String TAG_POINTS = "experiencePoints";
ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>> jsonlist = new ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>>();
ListView lv ;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
new ProgressTask(SecondActivity.this).execute();
}
private class ProgressTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, Boolean> {
private ProgressDialog dialog;
public ProgressTask(SecondActivity secondActivity) {
Log.i("1", "Called");
context = secondActivity;
dialog = new ProgressDialog(context);
}
/** progress dialog to show user that the backup is processing. */
/** application context. */
private Context context;
protected void onPreExecute() {
this.dialog.setMessage("Progress start");
this.dialog.show();
}
#Override
protected void onPostExecute(final Boolean success) {
if (dialog.isShowing()) {
dialog.dismiss();
}
ListAdapter adapter = new SimpleAdapter(context, jsonlist,
R.layout.list_item, new String[] { TAG_ID, TAG_FIRST_NAME,
TAG_MIDDLE_NAME, TAG_LAST_NAME }, new int[] {
R.id.id, R.id.first_name, R.id.middle_name,
R.id.last_name });
setListAdapter(adapter);
// selecting single ListView item
lv = getListView();
}
private void setListAdapter(ListAdapter adapter) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
protected Boolean doInBackground(final String... args) {
JSONParser jParser = new JSONParser();
// getting JSON string from URL
JSONArray json = jParser.getJSONFromUrl(url);
for (int i = 0; i < json.length(); i++) {
try {
JSONObject c = json.getJSONObject(i);
String id = c.getString(TAG_ID);
String first_name = c.getString(TAG_FIRST_NAME);
String middle_name = c.getString(TAG_MIDDLE_NAME);
String last_name = c.getString(TAG_LAST_NAME);
HashMap<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();
// adding each child node to HashMap key => value
map.put(TAG_ID, id);
map.put(TAG_FIRST_NAME, first_name);
map.put(TAG_MIDDLE_NAME, middle_name);
map.put(TAG_LAST_NAME, last_name);
jsonlist.add(map);
} catch (JSONException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
return null;
}
}
public ListView getListView() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
return null;
}
}
I am not able to show anything on the emulators for users,whereas I am able to fetch the data from the server
Actually in the project I want to display all the users present in the library.I am accessing the server which is on Ubuntu.
The following message is displayed on the console(Terminal):-
Started GET "/users.json" for 192.168.0.104 at 2013-05-05 22:05:01 -0700
Processing by UsersController#index as JSON
User Load (0.4ms) SELECT "users".* FROM "users" WHERE (users.deleted = 0) ORDER BY users.id DESC
Admin Load (0.3ms) SELECT "admins".* FROM "admins" WHERE "admins"."id" = 1 AND (admins.deleted = 0) ORDER BY admins.id DESC LIMIT 1
Completed 200 OK in 4ms (Views: 2.1ms | ActiveRecord: 0.6ms)
[2013-05-05 22:05:01] WARN Could not determine content-length of response body. Set content-length of the response or set Response#chunked = true
However i am not able to display the data on the android screen/emulator.
Please help me with this.

I missed your setAdapterList()method.
Any error for your json pasers? and can you put your activity which is inherited from SecondActivity?
//modify getListView
public ListView getListView() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
listView = (ListView)findViewById(r.your.listview);
return listView;
}
//modify setListAdapter
private void setListAdapter(ListAdapter adapter) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
lv.setAdapter(adapter);
}

Populate list view

I am developing a final year project and I am stuck at a point. I have to retrieve names of doctors from my database (MySQL database) and show it in a list view. I was able to establish a connection with the server and retrieve values, but when I tried to show the values in a list view, the application crashed!
I tried the same example given in [Hello, Views, List View][4].
It works for a predefined array like
private String lv_arr[]={"Android","iPhone","BlackBerry","AndroidPeople"};
but for a string array retrieved from the database it shows a run time exception. Is there any way I can achieve this?
package com.proj;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.NameValuePair;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.entity.UrlEncodedFormEntity;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.message.BasicNameValuePair;
import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import android.widget.*;
import android.app.ListActivity;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;
import android.widget.TextView;
public class proj extends ListActivity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
public int n=0;
public int t=0;
public int i=0;
public String name[]=new String[30];
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
// Create a crude view - this should really be set via the layout resources
// but since its an example saves declaring them in the XML.
TextView txt=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.tv);;
//Call the method to run the data retrieval
getServerData(KEY_121);
setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter(this,
android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, name));
}
public static final String KEY_121 = "http://10.0.2.2/doc.php"; //I use my real IP address here.
private String getServerData(String returnString) {
InputStream is = null;
String result = "";
//The year data to send.
ArrayList<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("year","1970"));
//HTTP post
try{
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(KEY_121);
httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
is = entity.getContent();
}
catch(Exception e){
Log.e("log_tag", "Error in http connection "+e.toString());
}
//Convert response to string
try{
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is,"iso-8859-1"),8);
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line = null;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line + "\n");
}
is.close();
result=sb.toString();
}
catch(Exception e){
Log.e("log_tag", "Error converting result "+e.toString());
}
//Parse JSON data
try {
JSONArray jArray = new JSONArray(result);
for(i=0;i<jArray.length();i++)
{
JSONObject json_data = jArray.getJSONObject(i);
n=jArray.length();
name[i]=json_data.getString("name");
//Get an output to the screen
returnString += "\n\t" + jArray.getJSONObject(i);
}
}
catch(JSONException e)
{
Log.e("log_tag", "Error parsing data "+e.toString());
e.printStackTrace();
}
return returnString;
}
}

You are using
1.)
android:id="#+id/list"
inside the ListView, but if your extend an activity by ListActivity you have to use
android:id = "#android:id/list"
2.)
You return a String[] here, not String
private String[] getServerData(String returnString) {
.......
JSONArray jArray = new JSONArray(result);
name = new String[jArray.length()];
for(i=0;i<jArray.length();i++)
{
JSONObject json_data = jArray.getJSONObject(i);
name[i]=json_data.getString("name");
}
return name;
}
And in ArrayAdapter, do it like this:
ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, getServerData(KEY_121));
setListAdapter(adapter);

public String name[];
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
// Create a crude view - this should really be set via the layout resources
// but since its an example saves declaring them in the XML.
TextView txt=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.tv);;
...
...
try {
JSONArray jArray = new JSONArray(result);
name[]=new String[jArray.length()];
for(i=0;i<jArray.length();i++)
{
JSONObject json_data = jArray.getJSONObject(i);
n=jArray.length();
name[i]=json_data.getString("name");
//Get an output to the screen
returnString += "\n\t" + jArray.getJSONObject(i);
}
}
catch(JSONException e)
{
Log.e("log_tag", "Error parsing data "+e.toString());
e.printStackTrace();
}
It seems that initializing name[] with a size of 30 may be too small.