[android-developers] Re: How to read data off a website into an Android app

2011-11-17 Thread Jungle Jim
Thanks, Mike. a csv file should work fine for my purpose. On Nov 15, 6:23 pm, mellery451 mellery...@gmail.com wrote: well, you're not going to be able to (easily) read Excel files on android (xls, or whatever they are called these days), but csv will probably work - perhaps that's what you

[android-developers] Re: How to read data off a website into an Android app

2011-11-17 Thread Jungle Jim
Thanks, Paco. On Nov 16, 3:07 am, Paco Abato pacoab...@gmail.com wrote: Can't you use Apache POI?http://poi.apache.org/ On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 01:23, mellery451 mellery...@gmail.com wrote: well, you're not going to be able to (easily) read Excel files on android (xls, or whatever they

Re: [android-developers] Re: How to read data off a website into an Android app

2011-11-16 Thread Paco Abato
Can't you use Apache POI? http://poi.apache.org/ On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 01:23, mellery451 mellery...@gmail.com wrote: well, you're not going to be able to (easily) read Excel files on android (xls, or whatever they are called these days), but csv will probably work - perhaps that's what you

[android-developers] Re: How to read data off a website into an Android app

2011-11-15 Thread Jungle Jim
Thanks, Brion. Specifically what I need to do is read some of the data that is displayed on a webp0age and load it into variables in my program. Do you know of any samples programs that will lead me in the right direction? On Nov 12, 10:09 am, Brion Emde brione2...@gmail.com wrote: Take a look

[android-developers] Re: How to read data off a website into an Android app

2011-11-15 Thread Alexander Turda
Well I think an xml parser would work for that -- 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] Re: How to read data off a website into an Android app

2011-11-15 Thread mellery451
well, I think you'd want to start with an HttpClient (http:// developer.android.com/reference/android/net/http/ AndroidHttpClient.html) to make the request and download the resource(s). Then you would need to extract the information you need from the content. This is commonly called scraping

[android-developers] Re: How to read data off a website into an Android app

2011-11-15 Thread Jungle Jim
Thanks Alexander and Mike. One more question: I also want to be able to put some data (perhaps in Excel spreadsheet format, but not restricted to that) somewhere on the web and have my app read that data. This way I can periodically revise the data that shows on the apps that my customers have

[android-developers] Re: How to read data off a website into an Android app

2011-11-15 Thread mellery451
well, you're not going to be able to (easily) read Excel files on android (xls, or whatever they are called these days), but csv will probably work - perhaps that's what you were thinking of anyhow. Have a look at

[android-developers] Re: How to read data off a website into an Android app

2011-11-12 Thread Brion Emde
Take a look at the WebView sample here: http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/index.html On Nov 11, 6:06 am, Jungle Jim jjjungle...@gmail.com wrote: I need to write an android app that will read data off a webpage and then display it in an activity in my app. Unfortunately, I