Android: get HTML from web page as String with HttpClient not working

Question

I am programming an app that uses HttpClient to connect to a web page (the aim is to be able to copy some of the HTML of a webpage into a String). I tried accomplishing this

Answer 1

This should work:

public class MainActivity extends Activity{
    private TextView contentView;
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(your layout);
        contentView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textview);
        DownloadTask task = new DownloadTask();
        task.execute(url);
    }
    private class DownloadTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String>{

            @Override
            protected String doInBackground(String... urls) {
                HttpResponse response = null;
                HttpGet httpGet = null;
                HttpClient mHttpClient = null;
                String s = "";

                try {
                    if(mHttpClient == null){
                        mHttpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
                    }


                    httpGet = new HttpGet(urls[0]);


                    response = mHttpClient.execute(httpGet);
                    s = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity(), "UTF-8");


                } catch (IOException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                } 
                return s;
            }

            @Override
            protected void onPostExecute(String result){
                contentView.setText(result);

            }
        }
}