I am new to android and i am trying to build a RSS reader for Android. I have built all the classes and XML files but its not giving the required output. Its just showing the message
No RSS feed available
.
Please can some one suggest what should i do.
Here is the code which i took from the tutorial and tried to manipulate-
public final String RSSFEEDOFCHOICE = "http://blog.01synergy.com/feed/";
public final String tag = "RSSReader";
private RSSFeed feed = null;
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
super.onCreate(icicle);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
// go get our feed!
feed = getFeed(RSSFEEDOFCHOICE);
// display UI
UpdateDisplay();
}
private RSSFeed getFeed(String urlToRssFeed)
{
try
{
// setup the url
URL url = new URL(urlToRssFeed);
// create the factory
SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
// create a parser
SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser();
// create the reader (scanner)
XMLReader xmlreader = parser.getXMLReader();
// instantiate our handler
RSSHandler theRssHandler = new RSSHandler();
// assign our handler
xmlreader.setContentHandler(theRssHandler);
// get our data via the url class
InputSource is = new InputSource(url.openStream());
// perform the synchronous parse
xmlreader.parse(is);
// get the results - should be a fully populated RSSFeed instance, or null on error
return theRssHandler.getFeed();
}
catch (Exception ee)
{
// if we have a problem, simply return null
return null;
}
}
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu)
{
super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
menu.add(0,0,0, "Choose RSS Feed");
menu.add(0,1,0, "Refresh");
Log.i(tag,"onCreateOptionsMenu");
return true;
}
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(Menu item){
switch (((View) item).getId()) {
case 0:
Log.i(tag,"Set RSS Feed");
return true;
case 1:
Log.i(tag,"Refreshing RSS Feed");
return true;
}
return false;
}
private void UpdateDisplay()
{
TextView feedtitle = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.feedtitle);
TextView feedpubdate = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.feedpubdate);
ListView itemlist = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.itemlist);
if (feed == null)
{
feedtitle.setText("No RSS Feed Available");
return;
}
feedtitle.setText(feed.getTitle());
feedpubdate.setText(feed.getPubDate());
ArrayAdapter<RSSItem> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<RSSItem>(this,android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,feed.getAllItems());
itemlist.setAdapter(adapter);
itemlist.setOnItemClickListener(this);
itemlist.setSelection(0);
}
public void onItemClick(AdapterView parent, View v, int position, long id)
{
Log.i(tag,"item clicked! [" + feed.getItem(position).getTitle() + "]");
Intent itemintent = new Intent(this,ShowDescription.class);
Bundle b = new Bundle();
b.putString("title", feed.getItem(position).getTitle());
b.putString("description", feed.getItem(position).getDescription());
b.putString("link", feed.getItem(position).getLink());
b.putString("pubdate", feed.getItem(position).getPubDate());
itemintent.putExtra("android.intent.extra.INTENT", b);
startSubActivity(itemintent,0);
}
private void startSubActivity(Intent itemintent, int i) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
}
This is my first approach to RSS Reader, It's no so dynamic and has boilerplate code but worked well for myself.
Usage:
RssParser parser = new RssParser(feedUrl);
Log.i("LOG", "Description: " + parser.getItem(3).description); //4th item's description
Class:
package com.uncocoder.course.app.feed_reader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
import android.util.Log;
public class RssParser extends DefaultHandler {
private StringBuilder content;
private boolean inChannel;
private boolean inImage;
private boolean inItem;
private ArrayList<Item> items = new ArrayList<Item>();
private Channel channel = new Channel();
private Item lastItem;
public RssParser(String url) {
try {
SAXParserFactory spf = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
SAXParser sp = spf.newSAXParser();
XMLReader xr = sp.getXMLReader();
URL sourceUrl = new URL(url);
xr.setContentHandler(this);
xr.parse(new InputSource(sourceUrl.openStream()));
}
catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
catch (SAXException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
public class Item {
public String title;
public String description;
public String link;
public String category;
public String pubDate;
public String guid;
}
public class Channel {
public String title;
public String description;
public String link;
public String lastBuildDate;
public String generator;
public String imageUrl;
public String imageTitle;
public String imageLink;
public String imageWidth;
public String imageHeight;
public String imageDescription;
public String language;
public String copyright;
public String pubDate;
public String category;
public String ttl;
}
@Override
public void startDocument() throws SAXException {
Log.i("LOG", "StartDocument");
}
@Override
public void endDocument() throws SAXException {
Log.i("LOG", "EndDocument");
}
@Override
public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName, Attributes atts) throws SAXException {
if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("image")) {
inImage = true;
}
if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("channel")) {
inChannel = true;
}
if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("item")) {
lastItem = new Item();
items.add(lastItem);
inItem = true;
}
content = new StringBuilder();
}
@Override
public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String qName) throws SAXException {
if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("image")) {
inImage = false;
}
if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("channel")) {
inChannel = false;
}
if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("item")) {
inItem = false;
}
if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("title")) {
if (content == null) {
return;
}
if (inItem) {
lastItem.title = content.toString();
} else if (inImage) {
channel.imageTitle = content.toString();
} else if (inChannel) {
channel.title = content.toString();
}
content = null;
}
if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("description")) {
if (content == null) {
return;
}
if (inItem) {
lastItem.description = content.toString();
} else if (inImage) {
channel.imageDescription = content.toString();
} else if (inChannel) {
channel.description = content.toString();
}
content = null;
}
if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("link")) {
if (content == null) {
return;
}
if (inItem) {
lastItem.link = content.toString();
} else if (inImage) {
channel.imageLink = content.toString();
} else if (inChannel) {
channel.link = content.toString();
}
content = null;
}
if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("category")) {
if (content == null) {
return;
}
if (inItem) {
lastItem.category = content.toString();
} else if (inChannel) {
channel.category = content.toString();
}
content = null;
}
if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("pubDate")) {
if (content == null) {
return;
}
if (inItem) {
lastItem.pubDate = content.toString();
} else if (inChannel) {
channel.pubDate = content.toString();
}
content = null;
}
if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("guid")) {
if (content == null) {
return;
}
lastItem.guid = content.toString();
content = null;
}
if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("url")) {
if (content == null) {
return;
}
channel.imageUrl = content.toString();
content = null;
}
if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("width")) {
if (content == null) {
return;
}
channel.imageWidth = content.toString();
content = null;
}
if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("height")) {
if (content == null) {
return;
}
channel.imageHeight = content.toString();
content = null;
}
if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("language")) {
if (content == null) {
return;
}
channel.language = content.toString();
content = null;
}
if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("copyright")) {
if (content == null) {
return;
}
channel.copyright = content.toString();
content = null;
}
if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase("ttl")) {
if (content == null) {
return;
}
channel.ttl = content.toString();
content = null;
}
}
@Override
public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length) throws SAXException {
if (content == null) {
return;
}
content.append(ch, start, length);
}
public Item getItem(int index) {
return items.get(index);
}
}