how to url encode in android?

Question

I am using grid view for displaying image using xml parsing,i got some exception like

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal character in path a

Answer 1

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

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