There are a few RSS readers on the Market. You can search under the Apps/News category:
http://www.cyrket.com/search?t=1&c=NEWS&s=1 One problem with the "generic" RSS apps is they can display the text/images in the RSS feed XML file itself, which is all great. However, many RSS feeds only have a title, and to read the contents, you need to go to the provider's web site (example: NY Times, Yahoo). In fact, most of the major news sites are like this. The reason -- their web site carries the ads. They don't get any clicks if they put all the important contents in the RSS feed itself. So, I see a lot of people complaining -- "this RSS viewer sucks, you need to use the Browser to see the actual content". The reason is that the 320x480 screen on the G1 is really not appropriate for viewing traditional web pages, many of those are hard coded to display with at least 800 pixels wide. Plus, these pages are so heavily loaded with images/ads/javascripts that it takes 15 seconds or more to load the page, even over fast 3G or WiFi network. That's what I call the "Horizontal Scrolling Hell of Slow Torture". There's one news reader that converts the web pages to a more mobile friendly way. Sometimes the pages load faster than my PC, because all the ads/crap are removed. Also, it's open-souce (apache license) . Check out some screenshots: http://nubinewsblog.blogspot.com/ The down-side, of course, is you need special scripts to convert each web site, and the author is cranking out about 1~2 sites per week. If anyone is interested to help and likes to write some JavaScript, please send mail to [email protected]! A sample script is here: http://code.google.com/p/nubi/source/browse/trunk/android/nubinews/assets/yahoo/yahoo_finance_content_js.html Enjoy! On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:41 PM, TmobileG1Fans <[email protected]>wrote: > > I would like to know how hard would it be to to build RSS feeds app > but only specific ones. > > For example politics: > > Pull rss feeds news from politico.com, cnn.com, fox.com etc..... > > and than display on G1... > > I would love some info on that and if someone can build such thing. > ...am interested. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
