Retrieve data from website in android app

Question

How can we retrieve data from a website and parse it into a readable format in the Android application? This means I want to extract data from website and use it in my android application, formatted in my way. It could be any website.

Answer 1

You can use jsoup to parse any kind of web page. Here you can find the jsoup library and full source code.

Here is an example: http://desicoding.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-to-parse-html-in-java-jsoup.html

To install in Eclipse:

1. Right Click on project
2. BuildPath
3. Add External Archives
4. select the .jar file

You can parse according to tag/parent/child very comfortably