Question

I have followed a tutorial on how to use the youtube gdata. Populating a listview with videos from youtube and a onclick. The source code is available on:

http://blog.blundell-apps.com/click-item-in-a-listview-to-show-youtube-video/

Once i have changed the YouTube GData link

from:

https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?author=“+username+”&v=2&alt=jsonc

to :

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/GoogleDevelopers/uploads

i am not getting list of videos, why?

Answer 1

Reason is it’s not working because :

From this URL :

https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?author=“+username+”&v=2&alt=jsonc

you are getting JSON String in Response for gdata.youtube.com

and

In this URL :

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/GoogleDevelopers/uploads

you are getting Rss XML in Response for gdata.youtube.com

SOLUTION :

to make it working you will need to change JSON String parsing in GetYouTubeUserVideosTask class to XML parsing

OR

use this URL for getting data in JSON format :

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/GoogleDevelopers/uploads?v=2&alt=jsonc

and use this tutorial to known how we parse json in android :

http://www.androidhive.info/2012/01/android-json-parsing-tutorial/