Re: How to write an RSS client for iOS

2016-02-13 Thread Gary L. Wade
Cool. Hopefully it’ll be in the next release, so keep adding bug reports. I didn’t want to write another regular expression to do something the class already does and get it wrong; if I do that, I might as well not even use NSDataDetector. In case you’re curious, Xcode, while debugging some r

Re: How to write an RSS client for iOS

2016-02-13 Thread Gary L. Wade
For dates, you can try using NSDataDetector, but I’ve found recently that it doesn’t work well if you only have a date or a time, only if you have both; it adds a placeholder value in those cases and doesn’t report that you only have one or the other. In the case for RSS feeds, though, you shou

Re: How to write an RSS client for iOS

2016-02-13 Thread Daniel Pasco
This. > It’s a total pain in the butt, to be honest. I’m not sure if there are any > existing open source iOS frameworks for reading feeds, but if there is one, > you’ll be much better off using it than writing your own. > > —Jens -Daniel smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: How to write an RSS client for iOS

2016-02-13 Thread Jens Alfke
> On Feb 13, 2016, at 10:02 AM, nicholasacosta...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > hi, what would I need in order to write my own RSS reader for iOS? - NSURLSession to fetch feeds. - NSXMLParser to parse the feeds. (I was going to write "NSXMLDocument to parse the feeds”, but that class only exists o

How to write an RSS client for iOS

2016-02-13 Thread nicholasacosta775
Sent from my iPhone hi, what would I need in order to write my own RSS reader for iOS? I wanted to know how this was done because I am interested in all of this RSS and podcast feeds and stuff like that. What frameworks would I need to use in iOS in order to pull news articles or podcasts from