How to check if URL is valid in Android

Question

Is there a good way to avoid the \"host is not resolved\" error that crashes an app? Some sort of a way to try connecting to a host ( like a URL ) and see if it\'s even vali

Answer 1

If you are using from kotlin you can create a String.kt and write code bellow:

fun String.isValidUrl(): Boolean = Patterns.WEB_URL.matcher(this).matches()

Then:

String url = "www.yourUrl.com"
if (!url.isValidUrl()) {
    //some code
}else{
   //some code
}