Creating URL in Android

There are two ways to create a URL :

-The first way : Using Uri.Builder class

 Let's say that i want to create the following URL :

https://www.myawesomesite.com/turtles/types?type=1&sort=relevance#section-name

Uri.Builder builder = new Uri.Builder();

builder.scheme("https").

           authority("www.myawesomesite.com").

           appendPath("turtles").

           appendPath("types").

           appendQueryParameter("type","1").

           appendQueryParameter("sort","relevance").

           fragment("section-name");

URL myUrl = new URL(builder.build().toString);

-The second way : when we just need to append/add variables to the available URL

          http://api.example.org/data/2.5/forecast/daily?q=94043&mode=json&units=metric&cnt=7

To build the Uri you can even use this :

final String FORECAST_BASE_URL = "http://api.example.org/data/2.5/forecast/daily?"; 

final String QUERY_PARAM = "q"; 

final String FORMAT_PARAM = "mode";

final String UNITS_PARAM = "units"; 

final String DAYS_PARAM = "cnt";

You can declare all this the above way or even inside the Uri.parse() and appendQueryParameter()

Uri builtUri = Uri.parse(FORECAST_BASE_URL) .buildUpon()

                         .appendQueryParameter(QUERY_PARAM, params[0])                                                                    .appendQueryParameter(FORMAT_PARAM, "json")                                                                      .appendQueryParameter(UNITS_PARAM, "metric")                                                                       .appendQueryParameter(DAYS_PARAM, Integer.toString(7)) .build();

At last :

URL url = new URL(builtUri.toString());

Source : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19167954/use-uri-builder-in-android-or-create-url-with-variables