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Asked: 2026-06-04T10:56:35+00:00

I have an android app that feeds on an xml file that is generated

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I have an android app that feeds on an xml file that is generated in my server with Ruby on Rails.
I want to download the new version of the xml file only when the it is newer than the one I have previously downloaded.

I would like to know what is the best way to do this in both sides: generate the version of the xml somehow somewhere in the server and obtain the version of the file using android.

Right now I am downloading an xml with the last day of modification of the xml I want to download an in that way compare it with the one I have locally, but I don’t think this way is very efficient. Can you suggest any other way to do it?

Thanks in advance

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  1. Editorial Team

    instead of pre-generating the XML file and then downloading it you can generate it upon HTTP GET request, from the Android app you can pass a parameter in the URL that represents a version or the last update time.

    then your server can check by this parameter if a new version should be generated.

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