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Android Build a Weather App (2015) Networking Making an HTTP GET Request with OkHttp

Slava Fleer
Slava Fleer
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Posted by Slava Fleer
Slava Fleer
6,086 Points

I'm playing with the code and have some questions about url and Get. Would be appreciated for it =)

1st: I found that I could type http instead https w/o visible result. Is it so matter ?

2nd: if url string write wrong in this "api.forecast.io" we would not receive data, no any exceptions.

3rd: if instead http/s would be something else, there would be FATAL EXCEPTION: OkHttp Dispatcher that even generic Exception doesn't catch and app crashes.

other changes in url string after "https://api.forecast.io/" catching by "if(response.isSuccessful())".

So the main questions is : How to catch this fatal exception? And how to catch wrong url in when "api.forecast.io" wrote wrong ?

Thanks again to all answers.

Edit: Found one more interesting thing: while I'm running on Emulator, I don't need the Internet permission in manifest. But on device I do need it. Why emulator take it w/o permission? Is it a bug or done on purpose ?