Read RSS in background, using AsyncTask

Here is a further work of the previous exercise "Simple RSS Reader, with Options Menu to reload RSS", with the help of "AsyncTask: perform background operations and publish results on the UI thread". The original readRss() method is broke into three section, preReadRss(), readRss() and displayRss(). and are called inside AsyncTask's onPreExecute() , doInBackground() and onPostExecute(). Such that the time-consume task can be moved to run in background.

Read RSS in background, using AsyncTask

AndroidRssReader.java
package com.exercise.AndroidRssReader;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.List;

import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;

import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;

import android.app.ListActivity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.ListView;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class AndroidRssReader extends ListActivity {

public class RssLoadingTask extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void> {

@Override
protected void onPostExecute(Void result) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
displayRss();
}

@Override
protected void onPreExecute() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
preReadRss();
}

@Override
protected void onProgressUpdate(Void... values) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
//super.onProgressUpdate(values);
}

@Override
protected Void doInBackground(Void... arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
readRss();
return null;
}

}

private RSSFeed myRssFeed = null;

TextView feedTitle;
TextView feedDescribtion;
TextView feedPubdate;
TextView feedLink;

public class MyCustomAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<RSSItem> {

public MyCustomAdapter(Context context, int textViewResourceId,
List<RSSItem> list) {
super(context, textViewResourceId, list);
}

@Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
//return super.getView(position, convertView, parent);

View row = convertView;

if(row==null){
LayoutInflater inflater=getLayoutInflater();
row=inflater.inflate(R.layout.row, parent, false);
}

TextView listTitle=(TextView)row.findViewById(R.id.listtitle);
listTitle.setText(myRssFeed.getList().get(position).getTitle());
TextView listPubdate=(TextView)row.findViewById(R.id.listpubdate);
listPubdate.setText(myRssFeed.getList().get(position).getPubdate());

if (position%2 == 0){
listTitle.setBackgroundColor(0xff101010);
listPubdate.setBackgroundColor(0xff101010);
}
else{
listTitle.setBackgroundColor(0xff080808);
listPubdate.setBackgroundColor(0xff080808);
}

return row;
}
}

/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);

feedTitle = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.feedtitle);
feedDescribtion = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.feeddescribtion);
feedPubdate = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.feedpubdate);
feedLink = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.feedlink);

startReadRss();
}

private void startReadRss(){
new RssLoadingTask().execute();
}

private void preReadRss()
{
feedTitle.setText("--- wait ---");
feedDescribtion.setText("");
feedPubdate.setText("");
feedLink.setText("");
setListAdapter(null);

Toast.makeText(this, "Reading RSS, Please wait.", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}

private void readRss(){



try {
URL rssUrl = new URL("http://www.gov.hk/en/about/rss/govhkrss.data.xml");
SAXParserFactory mySAXParserFactory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
SAXParser mySAXParser = mySAXParserFactory.newSAXParser();
XMLReader myXMLReader = mySAXParser.getXMLReader();
RSSHandler myRSSHandler = new RSSHandler();
myXMLReader.setContentHandler(myRSSHandler);
InputSource myInputSource = new InputSource(rssUrl.openStream());
myXMLReader.parse(myInputSource);

myRssFeed = myRSSHandler.getFeed();

} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (SAXException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

private void displayRss()
{
if (myRssFeed!=null)
{
Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
String strCurrentTiime = "\n(Time of Reading - "
+ c.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY)
+ " : "
+ c.get(Calendar.MINUTE) + ")\n";

feedTitle.setText(myRssFeed.getTitle() + strCurrentTiime);
feedDescribtion.setText(myRssFeed.getDescription());
feedPubdate.setText(myRssFeed.getPubdate());
feedLink.setText(myRssFeed.getLink());

MyCustomAdapter adapter =
new MyCustomAdapter(this, R.layout.row, myRssFeed.getList());
setListAdapter(adapter);

}
}

@Override
protected void onListItemClick(ListView l, View v, int position, long id) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
Intent intent = new Intent(this,ShowDetails.class);
Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
bundle.putString("keyTitle", myRssFeed.getItem(position).getTitle());
bundle.putString("keyDescription", myRssFeed.getItem(position).getDescription());
bundle.putString("keyLink", myRssFeed.getItem(position).getLink());
bundle.putString("keyPubdate", myRssFeed.getItem(position).getPubdate());
intent.putExtras(bundle);
startActivity(intent);
}

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
menu.add(0, 0, 0, "Reload");
return true;
}

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
switch(item.getItemId()){
case (0): startReadRss();
break;
default:
break;
}

return true;
}
}


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