title: android word translator app basic functionality code error
body: <p>at the moment I cannot fin out what is wrong. I keep getting the same error message for the following code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>package com.example.test1;
  
  import android.app.Activity;
  import android.os.Bundle;
  import android.view.View;
  import android.widget.Button;
  import android.widget.EditText;
  import android.widget.Toast;
  import android.util.Log;
  import com.memetix.mst.language.Language;
  import com.memetix.mst.translate.Translate;
  
  public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    private EditText text;
    private EditText text1;
    //private String translatedText;
  
  
    @Override
     public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
  super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
      setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
      Translate.setClientId("myId");
  Translate.setClientSecret("mySecret");
      text = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText1);
      text1 = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText2);
  
      Button Trans1 = (Button)findViewById(R.id.button1);
      Trans1.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener(){
      public void onClick(View view) {
          String word = text.getText().toString();
          try {
              String translatedText = Translate.execute(word, Language.ENGLISH, Language.GERMAN);
              text1.setText(translatedText);
          } catch (Exception e) {
              e.printStackTrace();
          }
      }
      });
      }
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>02-14 16:36:26.355: W/System.err(1146): java.lang.Exception: [microsoft-translator-api] Error retrieving translation : null
  02-14 16:36:26.361: W/System.err(1146):     at com.memetix.mst.MicrosoftTranslatorAPI.retrieveString(MicrosoftTranslatorAPI.java:202)
  02-14 16:36:26.361: W/System.err(1146):     at com.memetix.mst.translate.Translate.execute(Translate.java:61)
  02-14 16:36:26.361: W/System.err(1146):     at com.example.test1.MainActivity$1.onClick(MainActivity.java:35)
  02-14 16:36:26.361: W/System.err(1146):     at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:4202)
  02-14 16:36:26.361: W/System.err(1146):     at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:17340)
  02-14 16:36:26.361: W/System.err(1146):     at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:725)
  02-14 16:36:26.361: W/System.err(1146):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
  02-14 16:36:26.361: W/System.err(1146):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
  02-14 16:36:26.361: W/System.err(1146):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5039)
  02-14 16:36:26.372: W/System.err(1146):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
  02-14 16:36:26.372: W/System.err(1146):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
  02-14 16:36:26.372: W/System.err(1146):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:793)
  02-14 16:36:26.372: W/System.err(1146):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:560)
  02-14 16:36:26.372: W/System.err(1146):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
  02-14 16:36:26.372: W/System.err(1146): Caused by: android.os.NetworkOnMainThreadException
  02-14 16:36:26.381: W/System.err(1146):     at android.os.StrictMode$AndroidBlockGuardPolicy.onNetwork(StrictMode.java:1117)
  02-14 16:36:26.381: W/System.err(1146):     at java.net.InetAddress.lookupHostByName(InetAddress.java:385)
  02-14 16:36:26.381: W/System.err(1146):     at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByNameImpl(InetAddress.java:236)
  02-14 16:36:26.381: W/System.err(1146):     at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:214)
  02-14 16:36:26.381: W/System.err(1146):     at libcore.net.http.HttpConnection.&lt;init&gt;(HttpConnection.java:70)
  02-14 16:36:26.381: W/System.err(1146):     at libcore.net.http.HttpConnection.&lt;init&gt;(HttpConnection.java:50)
  02-14 16:36:26.381: W/System.err(1146):     at libcore.net.http.HttpConnection$Address.connect(HttpConnection.java:340)
  02-14 16:36:26.391: W/System.err(1146):     at libcore.net.http.HttpConnectionPool.get(HttpConnectionPool.java:87)
  02-14 16:36:26.391: W/System.err(1146):     at libcore.net.http.HttpConnection.connect(HttpConnection.java:128)
  02-14 16:36:26.391: W/System.err(1146):     at libcore.net.http.HttpEngine.openSocketConnection(HttpEngine.java:316)
  02-14 16:36:26.391: W/System.err(1146):     at libcore.net.http.HttpsURLConnectionImpl$HttpsEngine.makeSslConnection(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:461)
  02-14 16:36:26.391: W/System.err(1146):     at libcore.net.http.HttpsURLConnectionImpl$HttpsEngine.connect(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:433)
  02-14 16:36:26.391: W/System.err(1146):     at libcore.net.http.HttpEngine.sendSocketRequest(HttpEngine.java:290)
  02-14 16:36:26.391: W/System.err(1146):     at libcore.net.http.HttpEngine.sendRequest(HttpEngine.java:240)
  02-14 16:36:26.391: W/System.err(1146):     at libcore.net.http.HttpURLConnectionImpl.connect(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:81)
  02-14 16:36:26.391: W/System.err(1146):     at libcore.net.http.HttpURLConnectionImpl.getOutputStream(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:197)
  02-14 16:36:26.391: W/System.err(1146):     at libcore.net.http.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getOutputStream(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:281)
  02-14 16:36:26.401: W/System.err(1146):     at com.memetix.mst.MicrosoftTranslatorAPI.getToken(MicrosoftTranslatorAPI.java:133)
  02-14 16:36:26.401: W/System.err(1146):     at com.memetix.mst.MicrosoftTranslatorAPI.retrieveResponse(MicrosoftTranslatorAPI.java:160)
  02-14 16:36:26.401: W/System.err(1146):     at com.memetix.mst.MicrosoftTranslatorAPI.retrieveString(MicrosoftTranslatorAPI.java:199)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>or alternatively i have tried it another way:</p>
  
  <pre><code>package com.example.test1;
  
  import android.app.Activity;
  import android.os.Bundle;
  import android.view.View;
  import android.widget.Button;
  import android.widget.EditText;
  import android.widget.Toast;
  import android.util.Log;
  import com.memetix.mst.language.Language;
  import com.memetix.mst.translate.Translate;
  
  public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    private EditText text;
    private EditText text1;
    //private String translatedText;
  
  
    @Override
     public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
  super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
      setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
      Translate.setClientId("myId");
  Translate.setClientSecret("mySecret");
      text = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText1);
      text1 = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText2);
      }
  
      public void onClick(View view) {
       switch (view.getId()) {
      case R.id.button1:
      if (text.getText().length() == 0) {
        Toast.makeText(this, "Please enter a word or phrase to translate...",
           Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        return;
       }
      else {
      String word = text.getText().toString();
      try {
          String translatedText = Translate.execute(word, Language.ENGLISH, Language.GERMAN);
          text1.setText(translatedText);
      } catch (Exception e) {
          Toast.makeText(this, "flop...",
                 Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
          e.printStackTrace();
      }
        }
       }
       }
       }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>with this one it always catches and exception.</p>
  
  <p>none of them return a reult.</p>
  
  <p>main problem (exception caught): </p>
  
  <pre><code>02-14 16:50:17.281: W/System.err(1249): java.lang.Exception: [microsoft-translator-api] Error retrieving translation : null
  </code></pre>