Retrieving content of a txt file from URL to Android

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Published on 2011-01-13T23:16:56Z Indexed on 2011/01/14 4:53 UTC
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I would like to be able to retrieve contents of a .txt file from the internet, and load it in an EditText. I tried using the code on this page: Reading Text File From Server on Android

It didn't work, as you might have guessed. I've read on numerous sites about this type of problem, but I can't get anything to work. Someone suggested AndroidHttpClient (http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/http/AndroidHttpClient.html), but I simply can't find any examples with this.

As I'm a newbie in Android programming, I would love if someone could please give me a small example.

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