Get description from Yahoo! Weather RSS feed, and display in WebView.

Last exercise "Get weather info from Yahoo! Weather RSS Feed" get information from Yahoo! Weather RSS feed, and display in simple text form. Inside the returned feed, there are elements with Tag Name of "description". The second one is in html coded form.

example:

 Current Conditions:
 Cloudy, 47 F
 
Forecast:
 Sun - Few Showers. High: 57 Low: 47
 Mon - Sunny/Wind. High: 53 Low: 30
 
 Full Forecast at Yahoo! Weather

 (provided by The Weather Channel)

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This example demonstrate how to retrieve description elements from Yahoo! Weather RSS feed, and display on a WebView.

package com.exercise.AndroidYahooWeatherDOM;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.Reader;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;

import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.webkit.WebView;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class AndroidYahooWeatherDOMActivity extends Activity {
 
 WebView webView;
  
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
        //weather = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.weather);
        webView = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.webview);
        
        String weatherString = QueryYahooWeather();
        Document weatherDoc = convertStringToDocument(weatherString);
        
        String weatherResult = parseWeatherDescription(weatherDoc);
        webView.loadData(weatherResult, "text/html", "UTF-8");
        
    }
    private String parseWeatherDescription(Document srcDoc){
     String weatherDescription="";
     
     NodeList nodeListDescription = srcDoc.getElementsByTagName("description");
     if(nodeListDescription.getLength()>=0){
      for(int i=0; i       weatherDescription += nodeListDescription.item(i).getTextContent()+"
";
      }
     }else{
      weatherDescription = ("No Description!");
     }
     
     return weatherDescription;
    }
    
    private Document convertStringToDocument(String src){
     Document dest = null;
     
     DocumentBuilderFactory dbFactory =
       DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
     DocumentBuilder parser;

     try {
      parser = dbFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
   dest = parser.parse(new ByteArrayInputStream(src.getBytes()));
  } catch (ParserConfigurationException e1) {
   e1.printStackTrace();
   Toast.makeText(AndroidYahooWeatherDOMActivity.this, 
        e1.toString(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
  } catch (SAXException e) {
   e.printStackTrace();
   Toast.makeText(AndroidYahooWeatherDOMActivity.this, 
        e.toString(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
  } catch (IOException e) {
   e.printStackTrace();
   Toast.makeText(AndroidYahooWeatherDOMActivity.this, 
        e.toString(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
  }
     
     return dest;
    }
    
    private String QueryYahooWeather(){
     
     String qResult = "";
     String queryString = "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=2459115";
     
     HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
        HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(queryString);
        
        try {
         HttpEntity httpEntity = httpClient.execute(httpGet).getEntity();
         
         if (httpEntity != null){
          InputStream inputStream = httpEntity.getContent();
          Reader in = new InputStreamReader(inputStream);
          BufferedReader bufferedreader = new BufferedReader(in);
          StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
          
          String stringReadLine = null;

          while ((stringReadLine = bufferedreader.readLine()) != null) {
           stringBuilder.append(stringReadLine + "\n"); 
          }
          
          qResult = stringBuilder.toString(); 
         }

  } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
   e.printStackTrace();
   Toast.makeText(AndroidYahooWeatherDOMActivity.this, 
        e.toString(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
  } catch (IOException e) {
   e.printStackTrace();
   Toast.makeText(AndroidYahooWeatherDOMActivity.this, 
        e.toString(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
  }
     
        return qResult;
    }
}

Modify main.xml to add a WebView.

    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/hello" />

      android:id="@+id/webview"
     android:layout_width="fill_parent"
     android:layout_height="fill_parent" />

You have to modify AndroidManifest.xml to grand permission of "android.permission.INTERNET"

Download the files.


Related:
- Search WOEID from http://query.yahooapis.com/.
- Get Google Weather