Sometimes, we might need extract domain name such as www.google.com from the www.google.com/search=searchQuery. In android java, the code below can do it. It will output only the domain name after stripping other characters

Java Code for getting host domain name from URL

URI uri = null;
            try {
                uri = new URI(url);
                String domain = uri.getHost();
                Toast.makeText(mContext, domain, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            } catch (URISyntaxException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }