Android RSS Reader App With Examples [Latest]

In this tutorial, we’ll be discussing Android RSS Reader and develop an RSS Feed Reader app in android studio.

The Android RSS Feed Reader app would showcase Movie Reviews from two popular websites.

Android RSS Reader

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. Websites generally provide RSS Feeds for their content. It’s in XML format and is typically used to access the latest contents fed in the website.

An RSS Feed xml document looks like this:


&lt;channel&gt;
    &lt;title&gt;&lt;/title&gt;
    &lt;link&gt;&lt;/link&gt;
    &lt;description&gt;&lt;/description&gt;
    &lt;item&gt;
        &lt;title&gt;&lt;/title&gt;
        &lt;link&gt;&lt;/link&gt;
        &lt;pubDate&gt;&lt;/pubDate&gt;
        &lt;description&gt;&lt;/description&gt;
    &lt;/item&gt;
    &lt;item&gt;
    .
    .
    .
    .
    &lt;/item&gt;
&lt;/channel&gt;

<item>

</item>

<item>

</item>

</channel>

channel is the root element used to hold the below-mentioned elements.
title is the title of the website.
link contains the url of the website
item element consists of contents of the website. Each item describes the title, url, publication date and description(body) of the respective content.

In our following Android Project, we’ll use DocumentBuilderFactory instance to parse the xml document.
We’ll be using HttpClient and jsoup jar library to fetch the XML feed contents of the websites in an AsyncTask.
We’ll be developing an application that fetches the movies reviews from two of the websites: Rediff.com and Cinemablend.com using their RSS Feed and display the items in the form of a ListView. Clicking any of the ListView would open its content inside a WebView. Let’s get started.

Android RSS Feed Reader Project Structure

The project consists of three activities.
The First contains two Buttons that’ll act as links to the RSS Feeds of the two websites.
The second would display the latest RSS Feeds containing the Movie Reviews in the form of a ListView.
The third would open up the link from any of the List Row selected in the previous activity and load the URL in a WebView.
We’ve imported the jsoup.jar in our libs folder.
We need to set useLibrary 'org.apache.http.legacy' in our android{} block in the build.gradle as shown below:

This is done to allow HtttpClient and HttpUrlConnection classes to be imported in our activities.

Android RSS Reader Code

The code for the activity_main.xml layout class is given below:


&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
&lt;LinearLayout xmlns:android="https://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:gravity="center"
    android:orientation="vertical"&gt;
    &lt;Button
        android:id="@+id/btnRediff"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="REDIFF.COM RSS FEED" /&gt;
    &lt;Button
        android:id="@+id/btnCinemaBlend"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="CINEMA BLEND RSS FEED" /&gt;
&lt;/LinearLayout&gt;

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

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

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="match_parent"

android:gravity="center"

android:orientation="vertical">

<Button

android:id="@+id/btnRediff"

android:layout_width="wrap_content"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:text="REDIFF.COM RSS FEED" />

<Button

android:id="@+id/btnCinemaBlend"

android:layout_width="wrap_content"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:text="CINEMA BLEND RSS FEED" />

</LinearLayout>

The code for the MainActivity.java class is given below:


package com.journaldev.androidrssfeedtutorial;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import java.util.ArrayList;
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements View.OnClickListener {
    ArrayList&lt;String&gt; rssLinks = new ArrayList&lt;&gt;();
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        Button btnRediff = findViewById(R.id.btnRediff);
        Button btnCinemaBlend = findViewById(R.id.btnCinemaBlend);
        btnRediff.setOnClickListener(this);
        btnCinemaBlend.setOnClickListener(this);
        rssLinks.add("https://www.rediff.com/rss/moviesreviewsrss.xml");
        rssLinks.add("https://www.cinemablend.com/rss_review.php");
    }
    @Override
    public void onClick(View view) {
        switch (view.getId()) {
            case R.id.btnRediff:
                startActivity(new Intent(MainActivity.this, RSSFeedActivity.class).putExtra("rssLink", rssLinks.get(0)));
                break;
            case R.id.btnCinemaBlend:
                startActivity(new Intent(MainActivity.this, RSSFeedActivity.class).putExtra("rssLink", rssLinks.get(1)));
                break;
        }
    }
}

package com.journaldev.androidrssfeedtutorial;

import android.content.Intent;

import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.view.View;

import android.widget.Button;

import java.util.ArrayList;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements View.OnClickListener {

ArrayList<String> rssLinks = new ArrayList<>();

@Override

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

Button btnRediff = findViewById(R.id.btnRediff);

Button btnCinemaBlend = findViewById(R.id.btnCinemaBlend);

btnRediff.setOnClickListener(this);

btnCinemaBlend.setOnClickListener(this);

rssLinks.add("https://www.rediff.com/rss/moviesreviewsrss.xml");

rssLinks.add("https://www.cinemablend.com/rss_review.php");

}

@Override

public void onClick(View view) {

switch (view.getId()) {

case R.id.btnRediff:

startActivity(new Intent(MainActivity.this, RSSFeedActivity.class).putExtra("rssLink", rssLinks.get(0)));

break;

case R.id.btnCinemaBlend:

startActivity(new Intent(MainActivity.this, RSSFeedActivity.class).putExtra("rssLink", rssLinks.get(1)));

break;

}

In this, we pass over the RSS Url links via Intents to the RSSFeedActivity.java class that we’ll see next.

The code for the activity_rss_feed.xml layout is given below:


&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
&lt;RelativeLayout xmlns:android="https://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:id="@+id/relativeLayout"
    android:orientation="vertical"&gt;
    &lt;ListView
        android:id="@android:id/list"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:dividerHeight="1dp" /&gt;
&lt;/RelativeLayout&gt;

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

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="https://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="match_parent"

android:id="@+id/relativeLayout"

android:orientation="vertical">

<ListView

android:id="@android:id/list"

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:dividerHeight="1dp" />

</RelativeLayout>

The code for the RSSFeedActivity.java class which extends a ListActivity is given below.


package com.journaldev.androidrssfeedtutorial;
import android.app.ListActivity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.ListAdapter;
import android.widget.ListView;
import android.widget.ProgressBar;
import android.widget.RelativeLayout;
import android.widget.SimpleAdapter;
import android.widget.TextView;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Locale;
public class RSSFeedActivity extends ListActivity {
    private ProgressBar pDialog;
    ArrayList&lt;HashMap&lt;String, String&gt;&gt; rssItemList = new ArrayList&lt;&gt;();
    RSSParser rssParser = new RSSParser();
    Toolbar toolbar;
    List&lt;RSSItem&gt; rssItems = new ArrayList&lt;&gt;();
    private static String TAG_TITLE = "title";
    private static String TAG_LINK = "link";
    private static String TAG_PUB_DATE = "pubDate";
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_rss_feed);
        String rss_link = getIntent().getStringExtra("rssLink");
        new LoadRSSFeedItems().execute(rss_link);
        ListView lv = getListView();
        lv.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView&lt;?&gt; parent, View view,
                                    int position, long id) {
                Intent in = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), BrowserActivity.class);
                String page_url = ((TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.page_url)).getText().toString().trim();
                in.putExtra("url", page_url);
                startActivity(in);
            }
        });
    }
    public class LoadRSSFeedItems extends AsyncTask&lt;String, String, String&gt; {
        @Override
        protected void onPreExecute() {
            super.onPreExecute();
            pDialog = new ProgressBar(RSSFeedActivity.this, null, android.R.attr.progressBarStyleLarge);
            RelativeLayout relativeLayout = findViewById(R.id.relativeLayout);
            RelativeLayout.LayoutParams lp = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(
                    RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
                    RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT
            );
            lp.addRule(RelativeLayout.CENTER_IN_PARENT);
            pDialog.setLayoutParams(lp);
            pDialog.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
            relativeLayout.addView(pDialog);
        }
        @Override
        protected String doInBackground(String... args) {
            // rss link url
            String rss_url = args[0];
            // list of rss items
            rssItems = rssParser.getRSSFeedItems(rss_url);
            // looping through each item
            for (RSSItem item : rssItems) {
                // creating new HashMap
                if (item.link.toString().equals(""))
                    break;
                HashMap&lt;String, String&gt; map = new HashMap&lt;String, String&gt;();
                // adding each child node to HashMap key =&gt; value
                String givenDateString = item.pubdate.trim();
                SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z");
                try {
                    Date mDate = sdf.parse(givenDateString);
                    SimpleDateFormat sdf2 = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE, dd MMMM yyyy - hh:mm a", Locale.US);
                    item.pubdate = sdf2.format(mDate);
                } catch (ParseException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
                map.put(TAG_TITLE, item.title);
                map.put(TAG_LINK, item.link);
                map.put(TAG_PUB_DATE, item.pubdate); // If you want parse the date
                // adding HashList to ArrayList
                rssItemList.add(map);
            }
            // updating UI from Background Thread
            runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
                public void run() {
                    ListAdapter adapter = new SimpleAdapter(
                            RSSFeedActivity.this,
                            rssItemList, R.layout.rss_item_list_row,
                            new String[]{TAG_LINK, TAG_TITLE, TAG_PUB_DATE},
                            new int[]{R.id.page_url, R.id.title, R.id.pub_date});
                    // updating listview
                    setListAdapter(adapter);
                }
            });
            return null;
        }
        protected void onPostExecute(String args) {
            pDialog.setVisibility(View.GONE);
        }
    }
}

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package com.journaldev.androidrssfeedtutorial;

import android.app.ListActivity;

import android.content.Intent;

import android.os.AsyncTask;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar;

import android.view.View;

import android.widget.AdapterView;

import android.widget.ListAdapter;

import android.widget.ListView;

import android.widget.ProgressBar;

import android.widget.RelativeLayout;

import android.widget.SimpleAdapter;

import android.widget.TextView;

import java.text.ParseException;

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import java.util.Date;

import java.util.HashMap;

import java.util.List;

import java.util.Locale;

public class RSSFeedActivity extends ListActivity {

private ProgressBar pDialog;

ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>> rssItemList = new ArrayList<>();

RSSParser rssParser = new RSSParser();

Toolbar toolbar;

List<RSSItem> rssItems = new ArrayList<>();

private static String TAG_TITLE = "title";

private static String TAG_LINK = "link";

private static String TAG_PUB_DATE = "pubDate";

@Override

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

setContentView(R.layout.activity_rss_feed);

String rss_link = getIntent().getStringExtra("rssLink");

new LoadRSSFeedItems().execute(rss_link);

ListView lv = getListView();

lv.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {

public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,

int position, long id) {

Intent in = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), BrowserActivity.class);

String page_url = ((TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.page_url)).getText().toString().trim();

in.putExtra("url", page_url);

startActivity(in);

}

});

}

public class LoadRSSFeedItems extends AsyncTask<String, String, String> {

@Override

protected void onPreExecute() {

super.onPreExecute();

pDialog = new ProgressBar(RSSFeedActivity.this, null, android.R.attr.progressBarStyleLarge);

RelativeLayout relativeLayout = findViewById(R.id.relativeLayout);

RelativeLayout.LayoutParams lp = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(

RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,

RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT

);

lp.addRule(RelativeLayout.CENTER_IN_PARENT);

pDialog.setLayoutParams(lp);

pDialog.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

relativeLayout.addView(pDialog);

}

@Override

protected String doInBackground(String... args) {

// rss link url

String rss_url = args[0];

// list of rss items

rssItems = rssParser.getRSSFeedItems(rss_url);

// looping through each item

for (RSSItem item : rssItems) {

// creating new HashMap

if (item.link.toString().equals(""))

break;

HashMap<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();

// adding each child node to HashMap key => value

String givenDateString = item.pubdate.trim();

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, d MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z");

try {

Date mDate = sdf.parse(givenDateString);

SimpleDateFormat sdf2 = new SimpleDateFormat("EEEE, dd MMMM yyyy - hh:mm a", Locale.US);

item.pubdate = sdf2.format(mDate);

} catch (ParseException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

}

map.put(TAG_TITLE, item.title);

map.put(TAG_LINK, item.link);

map.put(TAG_PUB_DATE, item.pubdate); // If you want parse the date

// adding HashList to ArrayList

rssItemList.add(map);

}

// updating UI from Background Thread

runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {

public void run() {

ListAdapter adapter = new SimpleAdapter(

RSSFeedActivity.this,

rssItemList, R.layout.rss_item_list_row,

new String[]{TAG_LINK, TAG_TITLE, TAG_PUB_DATE},

new int[]{R.id.page_url, R.id.title, R.id.pub_date});

// updating listview

setListAdapter(adapter);

}

});

return null;

}

protected void onPostExecute(String args) {

pDialog.setVisibility(View.GONE);

}

In this, we instantiate an instance of RSSParser class.
Inside the LoadRSSFeedItems AsyncTask method we call getRSSFeedItems() to get the RSSItems from the URL which are then stored inside an ArrayList of rssItems. The RSSItems ArrayList is then eventually loaded into the ListView rows.

The code for the rss_item_list_row.xml layout is given below:


&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
&lt;RelativeLayout xmlns:android="https://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:padding="8dip"&gt;
    &lt;TextView
        android:id="@+id/page_url"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:visibility="gone" /&gt;
    &lt;TextView
        android:id="@+id/title"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:paddingBottom="1dip"
        android:textColor="#212121"
        android:textSize="18sp"
        android:textStyle="bold" /&gt;
    &lt;TextView
        android:id="@+id/pub_date"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@id/title"
        android:paddingBottom="3dip"
        android:textColor="#9b737775"
        android:textSize="14sp" /&gt;
&lt;/RelativeLayout&gt;

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

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="https://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="match_parent"

android:padding="8dip">

<TextView

android:id="@+id/page_url"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:visibility="gone" />

<TextView

android:id="@+id/title"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:paddingBottom="1dip"

android:textColor="#212121"

android:textSize="18sp"

android:textStyle="bold" />

<TextView

android:id="@+id/pub_date"

android:layout_width="wrap_content"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:layout_below="@id/title"

android:paddingBottom="3dip"

android:textColor="#9b737775"

android:textSize="14sp" />

</RelativeLayout>

On ListView row click listener we pass the current item’s url to the next Activity in the key url. Before we look at the next activity let’s see the RSSItem.java and RSSParser.java classes.

DO NOT forget to add the Activities in the Manifest file.

RSSItem.java


package com.journaldev.androidrssfeedtutorial;
/
public class RSSItem {
    public String title;
    public String link;
    public String description;
    public String pubdate;
    public String guid;
    public RSSItem(String title, String link, String description, String pubdate, String guid) {
        this.title = title;
        this.link = link;
        this.description = description;
        this.pubdate = pubdate;
        this.guid = guid;
    }
}

package com.journaldev.androidrssfeedtutorial;

public class RSSItem {

public String title;

public String link;

public String description;

public String pubdate;

public String guid;

public RSSItem(String title, String link, String description, String pubdate, String guid) {

this.title = title;

this.link = link;

this.description = description;

this.pubdate = pubdate;

this.guid = guid;

}

RSSParser.java
This is responsible for parsing the xml feed document.


package com.journaldev.androidrssfeedtutorial;
import android.util.Log;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.StringReader;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
public class RSSParser {
    // RSS XML document CHANNEL tag
    private static String TAG_CHANNEL = "channel";
    private static String TAG_TITLE = "title";
    private static String TAG_LINK = "link";
    private static String TAG_DESRIPTION = "description";
    private static String TAG_ITEM = "item";
    private static String TAG_PUB_DATE = "pubDate";
    private static String TAG_GUID = "guid";
    // constructor
    public RSSParser() {
    }
    public List&lt;RSSItem&gt; getRSSFeedItems(String rss_url) {
        List&lt;RSSItem&gt; itemsList = new ArrayList&lt;RSSItem&gt;();
        String rss_feed_xml;
        rss_feed_xml = this.getXmlFromUrl(rss_url);
        if (rss_feed_xml != null) {
            try {
                Document doc = this.getDomElement(rss_feed_xml);
                NodeList nodeList = doc.getElementsByTagName(TAG_CHANNEL);
                Element e = (Element) nodeList.item(0);
                NodeList items = e.getElementsByTagName(TAG_ITEM);
                for (int i = 0; i &lt; items.getLength(); i++) {
                    Element e1 = (Element) items.item(i);
                    String title = this.getValue(e1, TAG_TITLE);
                    String link = this.getValue(e1, TAG_LINK);
                    String description = this.getValue(e1, TAG_DESRIPTION);
                    String pubdate = this.getValue(e1, TAG_PUB_DATE);
                    String guid = this.getValue(e1, TAG_GUID);
                    RSSItem rssItem = new RSSItem(title, link, description, pubdate, guid);
                    // adding item to list
                    itemsList.add(rssItem);
                }
            } catch (Exception e) {
                // Check log for errors
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
        // return item list
        return itemsList;
    }
    public String getXmlFromUrl(String url) {
        String xml = null;
        try {
            DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
            HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(url);
            HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpGet);
            HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
            xml = EntityUtils.toString(httpEntity);
        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        // return XML
        return xml;
    }
    public Document getDomElement(String xml) {
        Document doc = null;
        DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        try {
            DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
            InputSource is = new InputSource();
            is.setCharacterStream(new StringReader(xml));
            doc = db.parse(is);
        } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
            Log.e("Error: ", e.getMessage());
            return null;
        } catch (SAXException e) {
            Log.e("Error: ", e.getMessage());
            return null;
        } catch (IOException e) {
            Log.e("Error: ", e.getMessage());
            return null;
        }
        return doc;
    }
    public final String getElementValue(Node elem) {
        Node child;
        if (elem != null) {
            if (elem.hasChildNodes()) {
                for (child = elem.getFirstChild(); child != null; child = child
                        .getNextSibling()) {
                    if (child.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE || (child.getNodeType() == Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE)) {
                        return child.getNodeValue();
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        return "";
    }
    public String getValue(Element item, String str) {
        NodeList n = item.getElementsByTagName(str);
        return this.getElementValue(n.item(0));
    }
}

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package com.journaldev.androidrssfeedtutorial;

import android.util.Log;

import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;

import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;

import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;

import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;

import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;

import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;

import org.w3c.dom.Element;

import org.w3c.dom.Node;

import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;

import org.xml.sax.InputSource;

import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.io.StringReader;

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import java.util.List;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;

import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;

public class RSSParser {

// RSS XML document CHANNEL tag

private static String TAG_CHANNEL = "channel";

private static String TAG_TITLE = "title";

private static String TAG_LINK = "link";

private static String TAG_DESRIPTION = "description";

private static String TAG_ITEM = "item";

private static String TAG_PUB_DATE = "pubDate";

private static String TAG_GUID = "guid";

// constructor

public RSSParser() {

}

public List<RSSItem> getRSSFeedItems(String rss_url) {

List<RSSItem> itemsList = new ArrayList<RSSItem>();

String rss_feed_xml;

rss_feed_xml = this.getXmlFromUrl(rss_url);

if (rss_feed_xml != null) {

try {

Document doc = this.getDomElement(rss_feed_xml);

NodeList nodeList = doc.getElementsByTagName(TAG_CHANNEL);

Element e = (Element) nodeList.item(0);

NodeList items = e.getElementsByTagName(TAG_ITEM);

for (int i = 0; i < items.getLength(); i++) {

Element e1 = (Element) items.item(i);

String title = this.getValue(e1, TAG_TITLE);

String link = this.getValue(e1, TAG_LINK);

String description = this.getValue(e1, TAG_DESRIPTION);

String pubdate = this.getValue(e1, TAG_PUB_DATE);

String guid = this.getValue(e1, TAG_GUID);

RSSItem rssItem = new RSSItem(title, link, description, pubdate, guid);

// adding item to list

itemsList.add(rssItem);

}

} catch (Exception e) {

// Check log for errors

e.printStackTrace();

}

// return item list

return itemsList;

}

public String getXmlFromUrl(String url) {

String xml = null;

try {

DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();

HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(url);

HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpGet);

HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();

xml = EntityUtils.toString(httpEntity);

} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

} catch (IOException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

}

// return XML

return xml;

}

public Document getDomElement(String xml) {

Document doc = null;

DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();

try {

DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();

InputSource is = new InputSource();

is.setCharacterStream(new StringReader(xml));

doc = db.parse(is);

} catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {

Log.e("Error: ", e.getMessage());

return null;

} catch (SAXException e) {

Log.e("Error: ", e.getMessage());

return null;

} catch (IOException e) {

Log.e("Error: ", e.getMessage());

return null;

}

return doc;

}

public final String getElementValue(Node elem) {

Node child;

if (elem != null) {

if (elem.hasChildNodes()) {

for (child = elem.getFirstChild(); child != null; child = child

.getNextSibling()) {

if (child.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE || (child.getNodeType() == Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE)) {

return child.getNodeValue();

}

return "";

}

public String getValue(Element item, String str) {

NodeList n = item.getElementsByTagName(str);

return this.getElementValue(n.item(0));

}

getRSSFeedItems() is what returns the RSSItem List to the RSSFeedActivity.java.

The code for the activity_browser.xml layout is given below.


&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
&lt;RelativeLayout xmlns:android="https://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:id="@+id/relativeLayout"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"&gt;
    &lt;android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"&gt;
        &lt;WebView
            android:id="@+id/webView"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent" /&gt;
    &lt;/android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView&gt;
&lt;/RelativeLayout&gt;

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

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="https://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:id="@+id/relativeLayout"

android:layout_height="match_parent">

<android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="match_parent">

<WebView

android:id="@+id/webView"

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="match_parent" />

</android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView>

</RelativeLayout>

The code for the BrowserActivity.java class is given below.


package com.journaldev.androidrssfeedtutorial;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.text.TextUtils;
import android.webkit.WebChromeClient;
import android.webkit.WebResourceError;
import android.webkit.WebResourceRequest;
import android.webkit.WebView;
import android.webkit.WebViewClient;
import android.widget.Toast;
public class BrowserActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    WebView webView;
    String url;
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_browser);
        Intent in = getIntent();
        url = in.getStringExtra("url");
        if (TextUtils.isEmpty(url)) {
            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "URL not found", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            finish();
        }
        webView = findViewById(R.id.webView);
        initWebView();
        webView.loadUrl(url);
    }
    private void initWebView() {
        webView.setWebChromeClient(new MyWebChromeClient(this));
        webView.clearCache(true);
        webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
        webView.setHorizontalScrollBarEnabled(false);
        webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
            @Override
            public void onPageStarted(WebView view, String url, Bitmap favicon) {
                super.onPageStarted(view, url, favicon);
            }
            @Override
            public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
                webView.loadUrl(url);
                return true;
            }
            @Override
            public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
                super.onPageFinished(view, url);
            }
            @Override
            public void onReceivedError(WebView view, WebResourceRequest request, WebResourceError error) {
                super.onReceivedError(view, request, error);
                invalidateOptionsMenu();
            }
        });
        webView.clearCache(true);
        webView.clearHistory();
        webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
        webView.setHorizontalScrollBarEnabled(false);
    }
    private class MyWebChromeClient extends WebChromeClient {
        Context context;
        public MyWebChromeClient(Context context) {
            super();
            this.context = context;
        }
    }
}

package com.journaldev.androidrssfeedtutorial;

import android.content.Context;

import android.content.Intent;

import android.graphics.Bitmap;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;

import android.text.TextUtils;

import android.webkit.WebChromeClient;

import android.webkit.WebResourceError;

import android.webkit.WebResourceRequest;

import android.webkit.WebView;

import android.webkit.WebViewClient;

import android.widget.Toast;

public class BrowserActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

WebView webView;

String url;

@Override

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

setContentView(R.layout.activity_browser);

Intent in = getIntent();

url = in.getStringExtra("url");

if (TextUtils.isEmpty(url)) {

Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "URL not found", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

finish();

}

webView = findViewById(R.id.webView);

initWebView();

webView.loadUrl(url);

}

private void initWebView() {

webView.setWebChromeClient(new MyWebChromeClient(this));

webView.clearCache(true);

webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);

webView.setHorizontalScrollBarEnabled(false);

webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {

@Override

public void onPageStarted(WebView view, String url, Bitmap favicon) {

super.onPageStarted(view, url, favicon);

}

@Override

public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {

webView.loadUrl(url);

return true;

}

@Override

public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {

super.onPageFinished(view, url);

}

@Override

public void onReceivedError(WebView view, WebResourceRequest request, WebResourceError error) {

super.onReceivedError(view, request, error);

invalidateOptionsMenu();

}

});

webView.clearCache(true);

webView.clearHistory();

webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);

webView.setHorizontalScrollBarEnabled(false);

}

private class MyWebChromeClient extends WebChromeClient {

Context context;

public MyWebChromeClient(Context context) {

super();

this.context = context;

}

The url passed from the RSSFeedActivity.java Activity is loaded here.

DO NOT forget to add the Internet Permissions in your AndroidManifest.xml file.

The output of the above application in action is given below.

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