tableView from web

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

I have a list of videos (out on youtube in unlisted state), that I would like to add to my app. I was going to make a simple tableView and list them out - when user touches it they would play that video, simple… but the client is wanting to protect the content mostly from being stale and the link will change every few months.
I am now thinking about how to either make a web page that has them listed or if there is a way so that when the app loads it grabs say the single lua file that holds the tableView and that lua file is out on the web??? Then the menu for the videos is that lua file… will that work?

Any other thoughts on this? Guess I could connect do a network download of a sqlite file as the app loads and it generates the table?

-Matt [import]uid: 18783 topic_id: 30252 reply_id: 330252[/import]

#2

I’m pretty sure youtube has a developer interface in which you can download an RSS feed of given lists etc. You could download that, process the content items and display them in a tableView widget. That is actually pretty straightforward to do and I’ve posted a sample which does that with the BBC news RSS feed in the code exchange. You could always just put a webview up with your youtube listing page in it, though it would definitely look like a youtube page and not part of your app.

Improved sample widget demo with RSS loading: http://developer.coronalabs.com/code/improved-widgetdemo-sample [import]uid: 8271 topic_id: 30252 reply_id: 121177[/import]

#3

I’m pretty sure youtube has a developer interface in which you can download an RSS feed of given lists etc. You could download that, process the content items and display them in a tableView widget. That is actually pretty straightforward to do and I’ve posted a sample which does that with the BBC news RSS feed in the code exchange. You could always just put a webview up with your youtube listing page in it, though it would definitely look like a youtube page and not part of your app.

Improved sample widget demo with RSS loading: http://developer.coronalabs.com/code/improved-widgetdemo-sample [import]uid: 8271 topic_id: 30252 reply_id: 121177[/import]