Parsing Youtube Gdata json into ListView

Question

I have been trying to find a working example of "Parsing Youtube Gdata JSON" in Android to populate a listview.

I have been reading this question, and I alm

Answer 1

Your activity class does not extend ListActivity. Hence the errors 3 and 4

You should use AsyncTask for network related operation. You cannot run network related operation on the main ui thread.

You should use lazy loading for images. But for sample i have use a ArrayList of bitmaps for thumbnail. You might run into memory leaks. So use lazy loading. Modify the below according to your requirement.

Example:

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    Button b;
    ListView lv;
    ArrayList msg = new ArrayList();
    ArrayList title = new ArrayList();
    ArrayList thumb = new ArrayList();
    ProgressDialog pd;
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        lv= (ListView) findViewById(R.id.lv);
        pd = new ProgressDialog(MainActivity.this);
        pd.setTitle("Loading..");
        b= (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);
        b.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener()
        {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                new TheTask().execute();
            }

       });
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
        return true;
    }
    public void getData()
    {
        HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
        httpclient.getParams().setParameter(CoreProtocolPNames.PROTOCOL_VERSION, HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1);
        HttpGet request = new HttpGet("https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=random&max-results=50&v=2&alt=jsonc");
        // HttpGet request = new HttpGet("http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/mbbangalore/uploads?v=2&alt=jsonc");     
        try
        {
        HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
        HttpEntity resEntity = response.getEntity();
        String _response=EntityUtils.toString(resEntity); // content will be consume only once

        JSONObject json = new JSONObject(_response);

        JSONArray jsonArray = json.getJSONObject("data").getJSONArray("items");
        for (int i = 0; i < jsonArray.length(); i++) {
            JSONObject jsonObject = jsonArray.getJSONObject(i);

            String title1 = jsonObject.getString("title");
            title.add(title1);
            String thumbUrl = jsonObject.getJSONObject("thumbnail").getString("sqDefault");
            URL url1 = new URL(thumbUrl);
            Bitmap bmp = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(url1.openConnection().getInputStream());
            thumb.add(bmp);
            String url;
            try {

                url = jsonObject.getJSONObject("player").getString("default");
                msg.add(url);
            } catch (JSONException ignore) {
            }
        }
        } 
        catch(Exception e1)
            {
                e1.printStackTrace();
            }

        httpclient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
    }
  class TheTask extends AsyncTask
  {

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(Void result) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        super.onPostExecute(result);
        pd.dismiss();
        YouTubeAdapter you = new YouTubeAdapter(MainActivity.this,msg,title,thumb);
        lv.setAdapter(you);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPreExecute() {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        super.onPreExecute();
        pd.show();
    }

    @Override
    protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        getData();
        return null;
    }

  }
}

activity_main.xml

YouTubeAdapter

public class YouTubeAdapter extends BaseAdapter{

    Context mContext;
    Intent intent;
    LayoutInflater mInflater;
    ArrayList mVideo= new ArrayList();
    ArrayList mTitle= new ArrayList();
    ArrayList mThumb= new ArrayList();

    public YouTubeAdapter(Context context,ArrayList a,ArrayList title,ArrayList thumb)  {
        mContext=context;
        mVideo=a;   
        mTitle = title;
        mThumb= thumb;
        mInflater = (LayoutInflater) mContext.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
    }

    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        return mVideo.size();
    }

    @Override
    public Object getItem(int position) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        return position;
    }

    @Override
    public long getItemId(int position) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        return position;
    }

    @Override
    public View getView(final int position, View arg1, ViewGroup arg2) {
        ViewHolder vh;

        if(arg1==null)
        {
            arg1=mInflater.inflate(R.layout.video, null);
            vh= new ViewHolder();
            vh.tv=(TextView)arg1.findViewById(R.id.tvv);
            vh.iv=(ImageView)arg1.findViewById(R.id.ivv);
            arg1.setTag(vh);
        }
        else
        {
            vh= (ViewHolder)arg1.getTag();
        }
        vh.tv.setText(mTitle.get(position));
        vh.iv.setImageBitmap(mThumb.get(position));
        return arg1;
    }

    static class ViewHolder
    {
        TextView tv;
        ImageView iv;
    }   
}

video.xml

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