Barebones, simple demonstration of an Android RSS Reader for the site www.reddit.com.
- [Features] (#features)
- [Build Instructions] (#build-instructions)
- [Third Party Libraries] (#third-party-libraries)
- Asynchronously fetches RSS feeds from any specified RSS URL for www.reddit.com, such as www.reddit.com/.rss or any of its subreddits such as www.reddit.com/r/madmen/.rss.
- Articles display in WebViews that cache. In case of network connectivity issues, articles still populate nicely.
- RSS feed listings are stored in an ORMLite local database, for more offline handling capabilities and for handling state changes on device quicker.
- Plays well on both phones and tablets; for tablets, SpiderReddit has responsive UI with some sweet side-by-side navigational action going on in landscape mode.
- Each article that comes up is delivered to you by your friendly neighborhood web-slinger. You'll see.
Built and Compiled with Android Studio 0.5.8. I'm a bit new to the IDE myself, having been an Eclipse man for many years, so I can offer few words of advice save for pointing one towards these guides:
- Android Developer's Guide to Installing Android Studio
- How to Clone an Android Repo With Android Studio
- ormlite-core-4.48.jar & ormlite-android-4.48.jar : For ORMLite SQL local databases.
- Simple-Rss2-Android.jar : simple RSS 2.0 Parser Library for Android.