Day95 of #100DaysOfCode

Day95 of #100DaysOfCode

Hii folks 🙌

Today I will be continuing the same pathway in which we will learn about Exception Handling.

Unit 4: Internet

Pathway 2: Get and Display Data

https://developer.android.com/courses/android-basics-kotlin/course

Exception Handling

Exceptions are errors that can occur during the runtime(not compile time) and terminate the app abruptly without notifying the user. This can result in a poor user experience. Exception handling is a mechanism by which we prevent the app from terminating abruptly, and handle it in a user-friendly way.

The reason for exceptions could be as simple as division by zero or an error in the network. These exceptions are similar to the NumberFormatException

Examples of potential issues while connecting to a server:

• The URL or URI used in the API is incorrect.
• The server is unavailable and the app could not connect to it.
• Network latency issue.
• Poor or no internet connection on the device.

These exceptions can’t be caught during the compile time. We can use a try-catch block to handle the exception in runtime.

Example syntax for try-catch block

try {
    // some code that can cause an exception.
}
catch (e: SomeException) {
    // handle the exception to avoid abrupt termination.
}

Inside the try block we perform the code where we anticipate an exception, in our app this would be a network call. In the catch block, we will implement the code that prevents abrupt termination of the app. If there is an exception, the catch block will be executed to recover from the error instead of terminating the app abruptly.

• We will open overview/OverviewViewModel.kt. Scroll down to the getMarsPhotos() method. Inside the launch block, add a try block around MarsApi call to handle exceptions. Then add catch block after the try block:

viewModelScope.launch {
   try {
       val listResult = MarsApi.retrofitService.getPhotos()
       _status.value = listResult
   } catch (e: Exception) {
       
   }
}

• Inside the catch {} block, we will handle the failure response. Then we will display the error message to the user by setting the e.message to the _status.value.

catch (e: Exception) {
   _status.value = "Failure: ${e.message}"
}

• Then we will run the app again, with the airplane mode turned on. The app does not close abruptly this time but displays an error message instead.

• We will then turn off airplane mode on the emulator. We will run and test the app, make sure everything is working fine and we are able to see the JSON string.

That is all for Day95 ✅

Thanks for reading, See you tomorrow!