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Android Build a Weather App (2015) Concurrency and Error Handling Handling Errors

Ankit Prasad
Ankit Prasad
1,677 Points
Posted by Ankit Prasad
Ankit Prasad
1,677 Points

Why are we trying to catch the exception WITHIN the try block? Shouldn't the exception be caught in "catch"????

Seems like the purpose of try/catch is to "try to run some code" but if there's an error, run the code in catch? If so, why is the code to show the dialog box placed within the try block and not the catch block?

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Jacob Bergdahl
Jacob Bergdahl
29,119 Points
Jacob Bergdahl
Jacob Bergdahl
29,119 Points

You don't try to run the exception, you try to run the code. If the code doesn't run, you catch the exception.