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Android Build a Blog Reader Android App Adapting Data for Display in a List Cleaning Up Our Presentation

Felix lim
Felix lim
6,049 Points
Posted by Felix lim
Felix lim
6,049 Points

Java.lang.NegativeArraySizeException-1

When i change the blog url to my own blog URL, it gave me error below when i run the emulator.

My blog URL is : http://www.wetravelduck.com/api/get_recent_posts/

06-20 11:21:04.490: E/MainListActivity(2013): Exception caught: 
06-20 11:21:04.490: E/MainListActivity(2013): java.lang.NegativeArraySizeException: -1
06-20 11:21:04.490: E/MainListActivity(2013):   at com.wetravel.blogreader.MainListActivity$GetBlogPostsTask.doInBackground(MainListActivity.java:136)
06-20 11:21:04.490: E/MainListActivity(2013):   at com.wetravel.blogreader.MainListActivity$GetBlogPostsTask.doInBackground(MainListActivity.java:1)
06-20 11:21:04.490: E/MainListActivity(2013):   at android.os.AsyncTask$2.call(AsyncTask.java:288)
06-20 11:21:04.490: E/MainListActivity(2013):   at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:237)
06-20 11:21:04.490: E/MainListActivity(2013):   at android.os.AsyncTask$SerialExecutor$1.run(AsyncTask.java:231)
06-20 11:21:04.490: E/MainListActivity(2013):   at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1112)
06-20 11:21:04.490: E/MainListActivity(2013):   at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:587)
06-20 11:21:04.490: E/MainListActivity(2013):   at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:841)
06-20 11:21:04.760: W/EGL_emulation(2013): eglSurfaceAttrib not implemented

1 Answer

Felix lim
Felix lim
6,049 Points
Felix lim
Felix lim
6,049 Points

I figured out the answer from Ben

https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/trying-to-retrieve-data-from-my-own-blog-help

the special unicode char could break the code.