Question

What I have is an XML feed of data that are basicly like facebook wall posts.

The posts themselves contain text with interspersed images and video links. Now I can parse (using regex) all the links without a problem.

MY question is what is the best way to display this to the user?

Right now I created a tableview and have each row in the table view display a post. It looks great but the images dont display, they are just raw links to an image URL.

Someone suggested to try a webview, and I placed the webview inside of the tableviewrow, but im getting mixed results as for some reason all the webviews (about 20 tableviewrows/webviews) overrun and overlap each other.

Is there a better strategy to display this data in an organized top down way?

Thanks!!

Answer 1

i would extract the content of the xml as follows:

post = this.responseXML;
feed = {
 picture: post.getElementsByTag('TagNameOfImage'),
 text: post.getElementsByTag('TagNameOfText')
};

then i would use a label for the text

var label = Ti.UI.createLabel({
  text: feed.text
});

yourRow.add(label);

and a imageView for the picture:

var iv = Ti.UI.createImageView({
  image: feed.picture
});

yourRow.add(iv);

hope i could help you.