Wednesday, September 17, 2008

J2ME-Based RSS Reader

You can also download and install third-party programs to aggregate and render RSS content on your phone. The mReader program, written by Mark Allanson, is a J2ME-based RSS reader that works on Nokia Series 40 and Series 60 devices. It is available for free download from http://markallanson.net/html/technical/j2me/mReader.htm. mReader parses RSS content as well as basic HTML-formatting tags embedded in the RSS stream.


Typing URLs for RSS feeds on a mobile phone keypad can be tedious work. mReader supports importing a list of RSS feeds from an Outline Processor Markup Language (OMPL) file. You can create an OPML file by exporting RSS feeds from most RSS aggregator/reader programs. You can also download fully categorized RSS feed listings in the OPML format from directory web sites such as http://www.w3os.nl/logos/opml/.

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