Stack Overflow RSS Feed

This project is a Proof of Concept (POC) of the RxJava library in the Android ecosystem. The implementation is mainly revolving around the reactive style of programming; the list of news is fetched from the StackOverflow endpoint and then displayed in the view after invoking the update in one of the overridden methods (onNext) of the Observable. Since the API call to obtain the RSS has to be made, which is the asynchronous operation, the Retrofit library was incorporated. Additionally, TikXML has been used to parse the XML response to Java models.

External Libraries / Tools / Conventions

• RxJava - Reactive Extensions for the JVM – a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable sequences for the Java VM
• Retrofit - A type-safe HTTP client for Android and the JVM
• TikXML - Modern XML Parser for Android
• Lombok - Very spicy additions to the Java programming language
• Apache Commons Text - A library focused on algorithms working on strings
• RecyclerView - Display large sets of data in Android UI while minimizing memory usage
• Gradle - Gradle is a build tool with a focus on build automation and support for multi-language development

Authors

• Kamil Nowak
• Marcin Wrotecki