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Android Kotlin read rss feed xml data from url

Android Kotlin read RSS Feed XML data from URL in the most efficient way


Today we learn how we can read XML data from an url by using most efficient and short code.
We can use java for it but then will need to write more code compare to below code. So we will use kotlin functions to read RSS Feed from apple .

In below code we will read top 5 free download apps list data of apple store rss feed  that will be in XML format.


class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

    private val TAG = "MainActivity"

    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)

        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)

        Log.wtf(TAG, "onCreate Called")

        val downloadData = DownloadData()

        downloadData.execute("http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStoreServices.woa/ws/RSS/topfreeapplications/limit=10/xml")

        Log.wtf(TAG,"OnCreate: done")

    }



    companion object {

        private class DownloadData: AsyncTask<String, Void, String>() {

            private val TAG = "DownloadData"

            override fun onPostExecute(result: String?) {

                super.onPostExecute(result)

                Log.wtf(TAG, "onPostExecute is $result")



            }



            override fun doInBackground(vararg url: String?): String {

                Log.wtf(TAG, "doInBackground: starts with ${url[0]}")

                val rssFeed = downloadXML(url[0])

                if(rssFeed.isEmpty()) {

                    Log.e(TAG, "doInBackground: Error Downloading")

                }

                return rssFeed

            }



            private fun downloadXML(urlPath: String?): String {

                return URL(urlPath).readText()                

            }

        }

    }




So with the single line of code we are reading data from url and returning it . So when you will run above code it will print output in logcat.

Thanks for reading

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