hey mark

hello, midas!

how can I help you today>

er, today?

well I have an interesting new requirement in my companies app

wanted to get your advice

the company wants both android and ios teams

to download a js script

which contains logic that needs to be executed

relatively frquently

I have been having a hard time just downloading the file itseld

*itself

I get the byte[]

and try to convert it into a string

and get gibberish

I think that once I get the stringified js Ill be ok

well, if you're using OkHttp, you can get the response body as a string

so the question is how to convert the byte [] into a .js file

how are you downloading it?

I am currently not using okhttp

(BTW, hello Ed -- I will be with you shortly!)

networking lib is volley

(it was there when I got the project)

internally it uses HURLConnection (I think)

then use StringRequest

same issue

gibberish

I think that the issue is that its converting the file headers also

"file headers"?

for example

I see the file name in the gibberish

which is not in the content

my guess is that there is some issue with the server and how it is serving the response

well the ios guy got it to work

so I dont think thats it

also I can load the js in a browser

that may just mean that iOS is friendlier to broken servers than is HURLConnection

its hosted on s3

I don't know what to tell you

lots of people use StringRequest

for .js files?

that should not matter

I didnt think so either

unless S3 is doing something strange when publishing such files

well thanks anyway

you might set up a scrap project and try other clients (e.g., OkHttp) and see if you have better luck

I will now resume banging my head into my keyboard

I don't recommend that -- it's hard on the keyboard

:-)

lol

yeah I have been pushing to move to Retrofit for a while now

let me take a question from Ed, and I'll be back with you shortly

Ed: your turn! do you have a question?

ty

thanks anyway Mark

yes sir

it should be 'easy' and I did Java Swing for 10 years

but wow

can you advise me on the best approach for formatting text in a TextView dynamically ?

this was much easier in iOS and Java Swing

what exactly do you mean by formatting? bold, italic, etc.?

no, I consider that a Font attribute

so I want an edit mask like... (xxx) xxx-xxxx

or you type in a number and as you type... I adjust it dynamically for xxx,xxx,xxx

or, even better, https://android-arsenal.com/search?q=mask

NICE!

with luck, the particular masks that you want are supported by 1+ of the libraries

you're the best $20 I spend... just saying

:)

thanks!

thanks for the kind words! though I think that you're forgetting that one really awesome pizza that you ordered...

anyway, even if what you want isn't directly supported, you can use those as inspiration

most probably use TextWatcher

Thanks again Mark. Cheers

let me take a question from midas, and I'll swing back to you in a bit

midas: your turn! do you have another question?

I'm good, cheers