Can you test if the device has internet connection (+issues around that)

[assentec]

in the ios extension you can test if there is internet, is there something similar for android?
there is "network access" but does this cover a wifi connection too.

Some of my actions aren't completing, im not sure if this is because of the api im using or because its not connecting to the internet properly, so would be nice to debug this

Thanks

[SoftWarewolf]

Not sure what you are doing, but if the get object retrieves "" (blank), then you know it's not connected to the internet.

[assentec]

True but if my api limit has run out I'll get the same so not a great error check

[Fernando]

you have a condition in android object does it work for you?

[assentec]

I can only see is there a network connection

i only get an error when i'm in airplane mode, but when I have no signal and wifi - its not connecting to anything

[assentec]

Ok it turns out its an issue when theres a " " in the url im getting, so "london " or "new york" is there a work around for this?

[Simon]

Use the URL encode function of string parser if characters are causing you issues.

[assentec]

How would I do that, I have a look and i'm not sure how i'd do that.

so its http://etcetc + "text from text box" + rest of url

Would I need to write that to a string then parse it? I'm not sure how I put that url back into the "get" object.

[Simon]

It is the expression:

urlEncode$( "String Parser" )

This will return a string which is URL encoded and safe for transmission over the web. To use it, you need to first set the input string of the string parser. There are two ways to achieve this - firstly you can use the action "Set String". Following this you would then retrieve the urlEncode$ result using that expression.

Alternatively, and much of the time more usefully, you can use:

set$( "String Parser", "some string" )

This allows you to set the input string from inside an expression, so that you don't have to do it as a separate action. So for example you could set the URL of the GET object to:

set$( "String Parser", "http://www.yourdomain.com/somepage.php?text=This is some text with spaces to be encoded" ) + urlEncode$( "String Parser" )

That expression is called: Set String, Return "" and there is also one Set String, Return 0 (that's a zero character, not a letter 'o')

[Fernando]

after this great example and help from Simon, that should work.

GET object have a url encode for android that was tested

space in android shoudl be translated as %20 (which should works) or as "+" without the quotes