Turning a string into a Uri in Android

Question

I have a string, \'songchoice\'. I want it to become a \'Uri\' so I can use with MediaPlayer.create(context, Uri)

How can I convert songchoice

Answer 1

Uri.parse(STRING);

See doc:

String: an RFC 2396-compliant, encoded URI

Url must be canonicalized before using, like this:

Uri.parse(Uri.decode(STRING));

Answer 2

Uri myUri = Uri.parse("http://www.google.com");

Here's the doc http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/Uri.html#parse%28java.lang.String%29