Is there a simple way in .NET to quickly get the current protocol, host, and port? For example, if I'm on the following URL: http://www.mywebsite.com:80/pages/page1.aspx I need to return: http:/...

What is the reason for content provider authorities? How/why do I want to use them other than I HAVE to declare them in the manifest? I've tried to do my homework on this question and cannot fi...

According to https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_resource_identifier, a URI may or may not contain a double slash following the scheme identifier. This m...

I have a question about the android FileProvider. I want to save a pdf document and open it with a default program. I don´t want to save it in external Storage. After I´ve successfully saved the p...

An android library project contains a few providers whose authority is defined like the following in a contract class : public static final String CONTENT_AUTHORITY = "my.com.library.providers.tes...

I have had users complaining of a "duplicate provider authority" error when trying to install my android application. I initially thought it might be an old version interfering with the new version...