Android - How to retrieve currency exchange rates [duplicate]

Question

I'm trying to develop a simple Forex app for Android. To start off, I need to get the currency exchange rates, say for the past year.

Could anybody advice how I can go about this? I looked in Google financh API but couldn't find how to retrieve currency rates. Any advice is appreciated.

Thank you.

Answer 1

You can parse the data from the federal reserve. It has historical data separated by country. You can find the link here:

http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h10/Hist/

Data is given in plain ascii, making it very easy to parse.