Getting posts from WordPress in my android app

Question

I am new in Android development and I am trying to make an app that will simply display the post categories and posts from a WordPress website. Can any one help me, please.

Answer 1

I think this is better, for using wordpress rest api you need to use Wordpress 4.7 or higher, or install the Rest Api plugin in previous versions. Then you need to configure Permalinks in wordpress, this will make rest api endpoints to work.

For reduce the size and customice the output json you may install the Rest api filter fields plugin see the bellow example:

Fetching Specified Number of Post

For fetching specified number of posts you can use post-per-page filter. The below URL will fetch only 3 posts. http://your-blog-url/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?filter[posts_per_page]=3

Fetching Particular Post

You can fetch any particular post by its id. http://your-blog-url/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/67

Here 67 is the id of the post.

Filtering Fields

As you have seen in above JSON data that there are several fields that we don’t require. So with the help of REST API – Filter Fields plugin you can filter few fields. For example you want to fetch only post’s id and title then it can be done by using following URL. http://your-blog-url/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?fields=id,title