Scenario: Making an Android app using data from a website built with WordPress. The way it’s used will be much different than the website itself, but uses most of the same data, so I need more than just a simple WebView. The site uses WordPress to it’s fullest CMS capabilities, it’s much more than just a traditional WordPress blog.
I know WordPress has been building a fairly robust XML-RPC API to get posts, pages, custom post types, categories, tags, custom taxonomies, media, comments, options, etc ( wordpress xmlrpc api codex here: http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_WordPress_API ).
I’m a web developer, but I know my way around Java. Unfortunately, I haven’t developed much on Android besides following some tutorials and playing around with a few things.
I looked at the official WordPress for Android app (repository here: https://android.trac.wordpress.org/browser#trunk/src/org/xmlrpc/android ) to see how they gather all the appropriate data, but the client they’ve developed is far more than I need, and I can’t exactly pop it in like a .jar and go with it.
So I suppose my question is this: Has anyone done this before? What kind of client did you use, a prepackaged one, or a custom one? I know similar questions have been asked before, but I also know a lot of the improvements to the WP XML-RPC API were added in the latest version of WordPress (3.4), so there’s not a whole lot of info out there, but any direction would be much appreciated.
I was also having the same problem while trying to make an app for a website built on PHP/mySQL. I think you can check XML Parser
How to parse XML using the SAX parser
http://www.androidhive.info/2011/11/android-xml-parsing-tutorial/
However for my website I am trying to use Jsoup to parse the html directly and populate listview.
extract text from HTML segment using standard java