(Android™) Read RSS Feed

Sample code showing how to read an RSS feed and emit the contents.

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// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    CkRss rss = new CkRss();

    // Download from the feed URL:
    boolean success = rss.DownloadRss("http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml");
    if (success != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, rss.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // Get the 1st channel.
    CkRss rssChannel = rss.GetChannel(0);
    if (rss.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, "No channel found in RSS feed.");
        return;
        }

    // Display the various pieces of information about the channel:
    Log.i(TAG, "Title: " + rssChannel.getString("title"));
    Log.i(TAG, "Link: " + rssChannel.getString("link"));
    Log.i(TAG, "Description: " + rssChannel.getString("description"));

    // For each item in the channel, display the title, link,
    // publish date, and categories assigned to the post.
    int numItems = rssChannel.get_NumItems();
    int i;

    for (i = 0; i <= numItems - 1; i++) {
        CkRss rssItem = rssChannel.GetItem(i);

        Log.i(TAG, "----");
        Log.i(TAG, "Title: " + rssItem.getString("title"));
        Log.i(TAG, "Link: " + rssItem.getString("link"));
        Log.i(TAG, "pubDate: " + rssItem.getString("pubDate"));

        int numCategories = rssItem.GetCount("category");
        int j;
        if (numCategories > 0) {
            for (j = 0; j <= numCategories - 1; j++) {
                Log.i(TAG, "    category: " + rssItem.mGetString("category",j));
                }

            }

        }


  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}