Usage:
ConnectivityManager connMgr = (ConnectivityManager) getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE); String myString = Utils.downloadUrl("http://change.this.to.your.url", connMgr);
Here is the Util Class to download a string from internet:
import android.net.ConnectivityManager; import android.net.NetworkInfo; import android.util.Log; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.net.HttpURLConnection; import java.net.URL; class Utils { private static final String DEBUG_TAG = Utils.class.getSimpleName(); /** * Given a URL, establishes an HttpUrlConnection and retrieves * the web page content as a InputStream, which it returns as * a string * * @param downloadUrl download Url * @param connectivityManager ConnectivityManager * from getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE) * @return the string downloaded from the downloadUrl * @throws IOException */ static String downloadUrl(String downloadUrl, ConnectivityManager connectivityManager) throws IOException { if (!isNetworkConnecting(connectivityManager)) { return null; } InputStream is = null; String contentAsString = ""; try { URL url = new URL(downloadUrl); HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); conn.setReadTimeout(10000); conn.setConnectTimeout(15000); conn.setRequestMethod("GET"); conn.setDoInput(true); // Starts the query conn.connect(); int response = conn.getResponseCode(); Log.d(DEBUG_TAG, "downloadUrl response=" + response); if (response == 200) { is = conn.getInputStream(); // Convert the InputStream into a string contentAsString = readIt(is); } } finally { if (is != null) { is.close(); } } return contentAsString; } // Reads an InputStream and converts it to a String. private static String readIt(InputStream stream) { BufferedReader reader = null; StringBuilder out = new StringBuilder(); try { reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(stream, "UTF-8")); String line; while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) { out.append(line); } } catch (IOException ignored) { Log.e(DEBUG_TAG, ignored.getMessage(), ignored); } finally { try { if (reader != null) { reader.close(); } } catch (IOException ignored) { Log.e(DEBUG_TAG, ignored.getMessage(), ignored); } } return out.toString(); } private static boolean isNetworkConnecting(ConnectivityManager connectivityManager) { NetworkInfo networkInfo = connectivityManager.getActiveNetworkInfo(); if (networkInfo == null || !networkInfo.isConnected()) { Log.d(DEBUG_TAG, "Network is not connected!!"); return false; } Log.d(DEBUG_TAG, "Network is connected!!"); return true; } }