Use URI builder in Android or create URL with variables

Let's say that I want to create the following URL:

https://www.myawesomesite.com/turtles/types?type=1&sort=relevance#section-name

To build this with the Uri.Builder I would do the following.

Uri.Builder builder = new Uri.Builder();builder.scheme("https")    .authority("www.myawesomesite.com")    .appendPath("turtles")    .appendPath("types")    .appendQueryParameter("type", "1")    .appendQueryParameter("sort", "relevance")    .fragment("section-name");String myUrl = builder.build().toString();

There is another way of using Uri and we can achieve the same goal

http://api.example.org/data/2.5/forecast/daily?q=94043&mode=json&units=metric&cnt=7

To build the Uri you can use this:

final String FORECAST_BASE_URL =     "http://api.example.org/data/2.5/forecast/daily?";final String QUERY_PARAM = "q";final String FORMAT_PARAM = "mode";final String UNITS_PARAM = "units";final String DAYS_PARAM = "cnt";

You can declare all this the above way or even inside the Uri.parse() and appendQueryParameter()

Uri builtUri = Uri.parse(FORECAST_BASE_URL)    .buildUpon()    .appendQueryParameter(QUERY_PARAM, params[0])    .appendQueryParameter(FORMAT_PARAM, "json")    .appendQueryParameter(UNITS_PARAM, "metric")    .appendQueryParameter(DAYS_PARAM, Integer.toString(7))    .build();

At last

URL url = new URL(builtUri.toString());

• Source: Udacity Android course / Sunshine app

Excellent answer from above turned into a simple utility method.

private Uri buildURI(String url, Map<String, String> params) {    // build url with parameters.    Uri.Builder builder = Uri.parse(url).buildUpon();    for (Map.Entry<String, String> entry : params.entrySet()) {        builder.appendQueryParameter(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue());    }    return builder.build();}