How to copy plain text from a website and display it in a widget on android ?

Question

Hi everyone,

I need some help to make a widget that basically when clicked it access the internet and copy text from a single website link and display it in the widget? and guidance on how to do that or even better a simple example? I did finalized the widget so I just need the part where I grab the text from the website.

Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

I found the answer to this problem. It's posted in stack overflow at this link

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2922210/reading-text-file-from-server-on-android

I hope this would help people.