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    copied!<p>I have created an RSS reader that lists items in a listview. I also want a date below each item, but I have no idea how to do that. I need someone's help to make the Sub Item text display the pubDate that was retrieved from the RSS feed.</p> <p>This is the code I have for my class:</p> <pre><code>public class RSSReader extends Activity implements OnItemClickListener { public final String RSSFEEDOFCHOICE = "http://app.calvaryccm.com/mobile/android/v1/devos"; public final String tag = "RSSReader"; private RSSFeed feed = null; /** Called when the activity is first created. */ public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) { super.onCreate(icicle); setContentView(R.layout.main); // go get our feed! feed = getFeed(RSSFEEDOFCHOICE); // display UI UpdateDisplay(); } private RSSFeed getFeed(String urlToRssFeed) { try { // setup the url URL url = new URL(urlToRssFeed); // create the factory SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance(); // create a parser SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser(); // create the reader (scanner) XMLReader xmlreader = parser.getXMLReader(); // instantiate our handler RSSHandler theRssHandler = new RSSHandler(); // assign our handler xmlreader.setContentHandler(theRssHandler); // get our data via the url class InputSource is = new InputSource(url.openStream()); // perform the synchronous parse xmlreader.parse(is); // get the results - should be a fully populated RSSFeed instance, or null on error return theRssHandler.getFeed(); } catch (Exception ee) { // if we have a problem, simply return null System.out.println(ee.getMessage()); System.out.println(ee.getStackTrace()); System.out.println(ee.getCause()); return null; } } public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu); menu.add(Menu.NONE, 0, 0, "Refresh"); Log.i(tag,"onCreateOptionsMenu"); return true; } public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item){ switch (item.getItemId()) { case 0: Log.i(tag,"Set RSS Feed"); return true; case 1: Log.i(tag,"Refreshing RSS Feed"); return true; } return false; } private void UpdateDisplay() { TextView feedtitle = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.feedtitle); TextView feedpubdate = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.feedpubdate); ListView itemlist = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.itemlist); if (feed == null) { feedtitle.setText("No RSS Feed Available"); return; } if(feedtitle != null) feedtitle.setText(feed.getTitle()); if(feedpubdate != null) feedpubdate.setText(feed.getPubDate()); ArrayAdapter&lt;RSSItem&gt; adapter = new ArrayAdapter&lt;RSSItem&gt;(this,android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,feed.getAllItems()); itemlist.setAdapter(adapter); itemlist.setOnItemClickListener(this); itemlist.setSelection(0); } @Override public void onItemClick(AdapterView parent, View v, int position, long id) { //Log.i(tag,"item clicked! [" + feed.getItem(position).getTitle() + "]"); Intent itemintent = new Intent(this,ShowDescription.class); Bundle b = new Bundle(); b.putString("title", feed.getItem(position).getTitle()); b.putString("description", feed.getItem(position).getDescription()); b.putString("link", feed.getItem(position).getLink()); b.putString("pubdate", feed.getItem(position).getPubDate()); itemintent.putExtra("android.intent.extra.INTENT", b); startActivity(itemintent); } } </code></pre> <p>This is my XML:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt; &lt;LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"&gt; &lt;TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Android RSSReader" android:id="@+id/feedtitle"/&gt; &lt;TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="" android:id="@+id/feedpubdate"/&gt; &lt;ListView android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:id="@+id/itemlist" android:fastScrollEnabled="true"/&gt; &lt;/LinearLayout&gt; </code></pre> <p>This is what it looks like now in Eclipse:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/xLOqZ.png" alt="ListView Currently"></p> <p>This is what it looks like running:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/aVBqy.png" alt="In Process"></p> <p>How to make the Sub Item text display the pubDate that was retrieved from the RSS feed?</p>
 

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