Phonegap RSS feeds, Javascript

Question

I need to write a PhoneGap application (with HTML5 and JS, I don\'t need compatibility with IE) with AJAX so that it reads an RSS feed and looks up some specific information

Answer 1

I have just made a phonegap application that parses an external RSS feed using jFeed. I'll give you an example:

First, I include the following Java scripts in my index.html file:

    ...
    
    
    
    
    
    ...

Then, in my.js I use the following:

parseFeed();

function parseFeed() {
$.getFeed({
    url: 'http://someUrl.com',
    dataType: "xml",
    success: function(feed) {

    $('#feedresult').empty();

    var html = '
';

    for(var i = 0; i < feed.items.length; i++) {

        var item = feed.items[i];

        html += '
'
        + ''
        + item.title
        + ''
        + '
';
    }

    html = html + '
';

    $('#feedresult').append(html);
    $('#main').page('destroy').page();

    }});
};

The code then creates a listview (jQuery mobile) in my #feedresult div where each entry represents a feed item. As phonegap utilizes some sort of web view that loads all content using the file:/// protocol ( http://groups.google.com/group/phonegap/browse_thread/thread/b60bda03bac6e9eb ), there is no issue in doing cross domain XMLHttpRequest from phonegap.