On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Raghav Sood <raghavs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From what I can understand: The app reads some sort of feed from the blog > that is used to respond to comments. The user is then notified about the > response. > Yup - that sums it up quite nicely. It's dirt simple - a poor man's RSS reader. Steps: 1 - Post to a blog somewhere that can be subscribed via RSS. Get the url for this feed. 2 - Start an IntentService that does the checking. 3 - Parse the xml, searching from most recent until last time you last checked (saved as SharedPreference). 4 - Saved data about each post you find that is new. (Title, URL, etc) 5 - Send notification that links the user to a given post. 6 - Profit I have a config file that lets me set up multiple feeds, so I use the same strategy for responding to comments, notifying users about issues, or that a new version is available. Will probably create a "beta" feed soon too. I'm looking to improve this in the future as some people have commented that the text-message style notification can be annoying, but works well enough for now. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
