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Is there any news aggregator application for android which automatically updates news..??

Prashant Chaudhary · Answer

Hey if there is no such application than why don't we think to develop such an application as we are developers........

Sam Hobbs · Answer

Are you familiar with RSS? Do you know how it works? Akash wants a " News application for android which automatically updates and doesn't require continuous refreshing at all ". It is the part about not refreshing that is the problem. RSS must be refreshed somehow. If you know something about RSS that I don't know that makes this type of application possible, then please tell us. I think however that you are assuming it is possible but if you do a little research you will discover it is not possible; not without doing a refresh somehow. It is like saying that we want to get POP email delivered to our desktop or laptop computer automatically without our POP client having to do anything (checking for new mail) to read new mail. It cannot be done, because POP just does not work that way. Your POP client (your email reader in your desktop) must periodically check for new mail (refresh). This does not include online email, although the email must be refreshed occasionally if it is getting messages from a POP server; you just don't see that happening.

Sam Hobbs · Answer

There are some people that mis-interpret things like this as if they think I am telling them what they can and cannot do. I am not; I am trying to help you get the best possible answer. If you don't want to post the question someplace where you are much more likely to get help then don't. You asked the question previously: It means there is no such application? And that is what I was replying to when I said that the " important thing about what I was trying to say is that you cannot assume that ". I apologize if I said too much, but that is the important part of what I was trying to say. I explained previously that a RSS feed is not designed to do what you are trying to do. So yes, it seems highly unlikely to me that there is such an application, and no one here is saying anything about one. So since no one here is aware of one, then if there is such an application, then you need to ask in a forum in which there are very many more people that are more familiar with what is available. You can ask here, but if you choose to only ask here then you might miss getting the answer that might exist. I think we are justified in requesting that you not ask in more than one place at once; it is better to ask in just one place and then wait a couple of days or more before posting the same question someplace else. Since this is the type of question that is more likely to get help elsewhere, it is in your best interest (you are more likely to get help elsewhere) that you start by asking elsewhere. I am suggesting it not because I think you should post here; I am trying to help you by saying that if there is such an application, then you are much more likely to get the answer in some other forum.

Akash Ahlawat · Answer

Sam sir,I am not saying that "There is not such application" I am just asking about it.. and about the question you have asked -yeah news aggregator application reads a RSS feed ..

Sam Hobbs · Answer

Please understand that it is nearly impossible to prove a negative. You asked if " there is no such application ". The important thing about what I was trying to say is that you cannot assume that. Note that you did not answer my question " A news aggregator application reads a RSS feed or something similar, correct? ".

Akash Ahlawat · Answer

Yeah, I am agree with Mahesh sir. If I am a developer it doesn't mean that I should only develop an application and doesn't bother about the market.As a developer you should also be aware of the trends in the market and also about the application which you are developing. Thanks.

Sam Hobbs · Answer

Mahesh, I was explaining there is not an answer. Why do you think there is not an answer? Are you familiar with all the applications available? People can ask many questions here that might never get answers yet the person asking for help should not assume there is not an answer. If you are going to encourage non-developers to ask questions in these forums, then you must tell us. Please don't act like we should know better if you don't tell us. I am tired of people doing that. Also, I think you will get other developers that are frustrated if non-developer questions are put in the same forums as developer questions. It would really help to have a separate forum.

Mahesh Chand · Answer

Sam, I disagree. Just because I am a developer does not mean I do not know how stock market is doing or what applications are out there. We are not restricting forums to just development only. We are opening up for anything in general that related to programming and technology. Thanks!

Sam Hobbs · Answer

You can only assume that no one here that has seen this thread is aware of an application as you describe. This is a site for developers. Developers might not be familiar with the applications that someone else has developed. So this is not a good place to ask this question.

Akash Ahlawat · Answer

It means there is no such application?

Sam Hobbs · Answer

A news aggregator application reads a RSS feed or something similar, correct? Due to the design of RSS it is not possible for an applicaton to do both; automatically update and without a continuous refreshing. Your system does not get notified of changes; your system must look at the feed to determine if it has changed.

Akash Ahlawat · Answer

Hi Javeed, You took me in a wrong way..I am not looking for a source code I am just looking for the news application..so if you have any link from where I can download this then pls send

Javeed M Shaikh · Answer

you statement contradicts, you are saying that you are not looking for an application but a News application. so is it the source code you are looking for, or a free application or what?

Akash Ahlawat · Answer

Its not the application for which I am looking for..Please give me the link of an News application for android which automatically updates and doesn't require continuous refreshing at all..

Javeed M Shaikh · Answer

You will find many such applications in the android market, take a look: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tughi.aggregator&hl=en

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