Creating Android app for WordPress blog.
WordPress is the most popular Content management System .Bloggers like it because it is very simple and developers like it because it is easy to customize and extendable using plugin.
we are going to develop a basic app for your WordPress blog on Android. To make a mobile application we need Rest API interface.There are many third party plugins but WordPress team is working hard to make official REST API for WordPress. They have created a plugin which we are going to use in this post.
Prerequisites for WordPress blog.
- Install https://wordpress.org/plugins/rest-api/ plugin and activate it.
- Install https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-rest-api-featured-images/ plugin and activate it. We are installing this plugin because it make easy for us to get featured image from post.
Congratulations ! you are have finished WordPress blog setup for Android app.
Now go through http://v2.wp-api.org/ to know how to get JSON response for post and categories and so on.
Prerequisites for Android app:
- I assume that you have setup android studio on our PC.
- You need to have knowledge of Retrofit networking library because it is the fastest one and easy to use.If you don’t know how to use it then you can read this superb blog post here.
Now i assume that you have gone through previous step and you have basic idea of how to use retrofit android library.
Now you have to just to figure out how to use REST API according to your requirement.In source code I have implemented basic feature of blog post listing,Single post description and sharing on Social media functionalities.
To get post simply hit url with http://your_blog_name/wp-json/wp/v2/posts.
Example: http://www.crorepatiby30.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts
Only idea is to just do Json Parsing I used here Retrofit,You may also do with Volley or any other android Networking library.But you must to go through this blog post if you really want to know why I choose Retrofit here.
I am providing Whole source code for this basic app. In case of any query you may comment here I will solve whatever problem you are getting.
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