Url encoding in Android

Question

How do you encode an url in Android? I thought it was like this:

final String encodedURL = URLEncoder.encode(urlAsString, "UTF-8");
URL url = new URL(encodedURL);

If I do the above, the http:// in urlAsString is replaced by http%3A%2F%2F in encodedURL and then I get a java.net.MalformedURLException when I use the url.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You don't encode the entire URL, only parts of it that come from "unreliable sources".

String query = URLEncoder.encode("apples oranges", "utf-8");
String url = "http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=" + query;