Parsing html in java for an android app

Question

I\'m writing an android app that takes relevant data from a website and presents it to the user (html scraping). The application downloads the source code and parses it, loo

Answer 1

I would say it's probably a bad idea to parse HTML on the device if you're experiencing performance issues. Have you considered creating a web app that your device app fetches data from?

If the data is from one source (i.e.; one webpage and not many) I would build a web app to prefetch the site, parse for relevant data, and cache it for later use on the device(s).