News updates : How to?

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Hi,

if I wanted to have a “News” screen in my app what technique/method should/could I use to get and display updates.

Should I say create an xml file on my web server that contains the text and links to images then grab that file and display the text and download and display any images?

What’s the best and simplest way to have a news page?

Does anyone have a working example?

Thanks as ever! [import]uid: 9371 topic_id: 5671 reply_id: 305671[/import]

#2

Anyone? [import]uid: 9371 topic_id: 5671 reply_id: 19520[/import]

#3

Sorry but BUMP!

Hey Carlos, how about a blog, demo or something…?

Thanks :wink: [import]uid: 9371 topic_id: 5671 reply_id: 19606[/import]

#4

you already answered your own question in your first post! [import]uid: 6645 topic_id: 5671 reply_id: 19629[/import]

#5

That’s as maybe!

I was asking what’s the “best” way in case there was a “better” way?

Thanks… [import]uid: 9371 topic_id: 5671 reply_id: 19691[/import]

#6

If I were you I’d use JSON rather than XML, if only for the ease of parsing provided by this - http://www.chipmunkav.com/downloads/Json.lua

However that being said I’ve read somewhere that native XML parsing is coming. [import]uid: 5833 topic_id: 5671 reply_id: 19742[/import]