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Lews Therin
Lews Therin

Reputation: 10995

Getting data/information for android app use

I have been wondering about this, which is why I have put off learning app development for so long. Let's say I was making a school timetable app, that all the user had to do was enter the name of their course, and then the app shows the timetable for that course.. The questions is can I get information from the college or do I have to hard code it into the database myself? How does one get information to use if they need it? Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 133

Answers (3)

Rocker
Rocker

Reputation: 681

If college is having its website and the website provides RSS feed for time table you parse that XML file and show the data which is parse or you can save the time table information of which course in the database and display that using cursors.

Upvotes: 1

Noah
Noah

Reputation: 1966

If the college had a website that you could view, you could scan the page for class listings and pull that data in - but more than likely that sort of data will need to be entered manually by you when you ship the app.

Upvotes: 1

Jacob
Jacob

Reputation: 43299

It depends. Does the college provide you an interface you can use? Probably not one that was meant to be used by a third party app.

If not, then you have to somehow get the information into your database. Either per parsing their online HTML schedules or inputing it by hand (obviously always one of the last options to consider).

Upvotes: 2

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