Ex.

No: 10 Write a mobile application that makes use of RSS feed

Aim

To develop an android application that makes use of RSS feed.

Procedure

1. Open Android Studio.

2. Create a new project named as exno10.
3. In activity_main.xml add a ListView.
4. In MainActivity.java, create the objects for the components defined in the
activity_main.xml file.
5. Create a resources reference variable and instantiate it with Resources from
getResources() method.
6. Create a String array and initiate it with getStringArray() method of Resources object.
7. Set the Adapter to the ListView with built-in simple_list_item_1 layout and String array
as parameters .
8. In AndroidManifest.xml, get permission to use the INTERNET.
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
9. Run the exno10 application using an emulator.

Source Code

MainActivity.java

package com.example.exno10;

import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.app.ListActivity;

import android.content.Intent;

import android.net.Uri;

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import android.os.AsyncTask;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.view.View;

import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;

import android.widget.ListView;

import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParser;

import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException;

import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserFactory;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.io.InputStream;

import java.net.MalformedURLException;

import java.net.URL;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import java.util.List;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

List headlines;

List links;

@Override

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

new MyAsyncTask().execute();

class MyAsyncTask extends AsyncTask<Object,Void,ArrayAdapter>

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{

@Override

protected ArrayAdapter doInBackground(Object[] params)

headlines = new ArrayList();

links = new ArrayList();

try

URL url = new URL("https://codingconnect.net/feed");

XmlPullParserFactory factory = XmlPullParserFactory.newInstance();

factory.setNamespaceAware(false);

XmlPullParser xpp = factory.newPullParser();

// We will get the XML from an input stream

xpp.setInput(getInputStream(url), "UTF_8");

boolean insideItem = false;

// Returns the type of current event: START_TAG, END_TAG, etc..

int eventType = xpp.getEventType();

while (eventType != XmlPullParser.END_DOCUMENT)

if (eventType == XmlPullParser.START_TAG)

if (xpp.getName().equalsIgnoreCase("item"))

insideItem = true;

else if (xpp.getName().equalsIgnoreCase("title"))

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 {

if (insideItem)

headlines.add(xpp.nextText()); //extract the headline

else if (xpp.getName().equalsIgnoreCase("link"))

if (insideItem)

links.add(xpp.nextText()); //extract the link of article

else if(eventType==XmlPullParser.END_TAG &&

xpp.getName().equalsIgnoreCase("item"))

insideItem=false;

eventType = xpp.next(); //move to next element

catch (MalformedURLException e)

e.printStackTrace();

catch (XmlPullParserException e)

e.printStackTrace();

catch (IOException e)

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 e.printStackTrace();

return null;

protected void onPostExecute(ArrayAdapter adapter)

adapter = new ArrayAdapter(MainActivity.this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,

headlines);

setListAdapter(adapter);

private void setListAdapter(ArrayAdapter adapter) {

//@Override

protected void onListItemClick(ListView l, View v, int position, long id)

Uri uri = Uri.parse((links.get(position)).toString());

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, uri);

startActivity(intent);

public InputStream getInputStream(URL url)

try

return url.openConnection().getInputStream();

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 catch (IOException e)

return null;

activity_main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="fill_parent"

android:orientation="vertical" >

<ListView

android:id="@+id/listView"

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

</LinearLayout>

AndroidManifest.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

package="com.example.exno10">

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>

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 <application

android:allowBackup="true"

android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"

android:label="@string/app_name"

android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round"

android:supportsRtl="true"

android:theme="@style/Theme.Exno10">

<activity android:name=".MainActivity">

<intent-filter>

<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />

</intent-filter>

</activity>

</application>

</manifest>

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Output

Conclusion

Thus, the android application that makes use of RSS feed has been written, executed and output is
also verified.

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