CIS 470Project5. RSS Feeds - Reverse EngineeringDue: Th. Nov 26th
Fall 2015 – V. Matos

In this assignment you will produce an Android applicationthat is functionally similar to portions of the FOOD.COM app (Link: Visited: Nov-18-2016). The app is a product of Television Food Network G.P.which I assume has a copyright on it.

Your data aggregator is FOOD.COM available at There you will find a large number of cooking categories (see Figure 1). Please pick no less than ten of those entries for your project. Selected categories will be exposed on an Android ListView control. When the user clicks on a category a detailed list of recipes under that selected category will be displayed (see Figure 2). Once the user chooses a particular dish, you show the ingredients and procedure involved in the cooking of the dish.

The following images are only a suggestion of the output expected from your app. You may deviate from the example and claim your rights to an “artistic license”.

Figure 1. Partial view of the RSS feeds offered by FOOD.COM.

rssversion="2.0"
<channel
<title>Food.com: Eggs Recipes</title
<link>link
<description>The Food.com Recipes in: Eggs</description
<copyright>Copyright 2010 Food.com</copyright
<managingEditor></managingEditor
<webMaster></webMaster
<pubDate>Wed Nov 18 13:51:10 EST 2015</pubDate
<lastBuildDate>Wed Nov 18 13:51:10 EST 2015</lastBuildDate
<languageen-us</language
<ttl>1440</ttl
<rating
(PICS-1.1 " l gen true for " r (cz 1 lz 1 nz 1 oz 1 vz 1) " l gen true for " r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0))
</rating
<item
<title>Oven Baked Chicken Parmesan</title
<link

</link
<description type="html"
<p>A great recipe for a classic dish with a twist that will help you save time. What could be better?</ptable border="0" valign="top"trtd valign="top"a href=" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none;"imgsrc=" alt="Oven Baked Chicken Parmesan" border="0" style="border:1px solid #bfbfbf; padding:3px;" /</a</tdtd valign="top" style="font-family:verdana;font-size:8pt;color:#888888"diva href=" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none;"font style="color:#888888;font-size:13pt;font-weight:bold;">Oven Baked Chicken Parmesan</font</a</divdiv>Rating: 0</divdiv>Created: Sep 1, 2015 5:12:45 PM</div</td</tr</table
</description
<guidisPermaLink="true"

</guid
<pubDate>Sep 1, 2015 5:12:45 PM</pubDate
<source url="
</item

item>...</item>

item>...</item>

</channel>

</rss

Figure 2. A fragment of the “Eggs Recipes” RSS Feed

Figure 3a. List of all available categories / Figure 3b. User has selected Chicken Dishes Category
Figure 4a. Recipe for “Tahi Chicken Breast” - Ingredients / Figure 4a. Recipe for “Tahi Chicken Breast” - Directions

ALTERNATIVE IMPLEMENTATION PATTERN

Figure 5. List of all available categories / Figure 6. Menu for Barbecue & Grillingoption
Figure 7. Brief comments for Cowboy Hamburgers(a WebView is embedded in an AlertDialog box to show the description picked up from the RSS feed) / Figure 8. Detailed recipe for Cowboy Hamburgers (shown form the Food.com site with ingredients and directions)