/** getting all recent articles and showing them in listview */
@Override
protected String doInBackground(String... args) {
// rss link url
String rss_url = args[0];
// list of rss items
rssItems = rssParser.getRSSFeedItems(rss_url);
// looping through each item
for (RSSItem item : rssItems) {
// creating new HashMap
HashMap<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();
// adding each child node to HashMap key => value
map.put(TAG_TITLE, item.getTitle());
map.put(TAG_LINK, item.getLink());
map.put(TAG_PUB_DATE, item.getPubdate());
String description = item.getDescription();
// taking only 200 chars from description
if (description.length() > 100) {
description = description.substring(0, 97) + "..";
}
map.put(TAG_DESRIPTION, description);
// adding HashList to ArrayList
rssItemList.add(map);
}
// updating UI from Background Thread
runOnUiThread(
new Runnable() {
public void run() {
/** Updating parsed items into listview */
ListAdapter adapter =
new SimpleAdapter(
ListRSSItemsActivity.this,
rssItemList,
R.layout.rss_item_list_row,
new String[] {TAG_LINK, TAG_TITLE, TAG_PUB_DATE, TAG_DESRIPTION},
new int[] {R.id.page_url, R.id.title, R.id.pub_date, R.id.link});
// updating listview
setListAdapter(adapter);
}
});
return null;
}
