stock quotes for android

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Is there a way to download and parse stock quotes from yahoo or google using the android platform?

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I see you have added a bounty for this question. I was wondering what further information you are looking for that is not in the existing answers? — dave.c, Mar 16 '11 at 16:39
Did u find a way for this? if so can u tell me the code in android for achieving this? — EnthuDeveloper, Jan 16 '12 at 12:44

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 10 '11 at 18:58

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Yes. Android includes an http client and Xml + Json libraries.

answered Mar 10 '11 at 18:58

Robby Pond

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do you know where I can read about these? – locoboy Mar 10 '11 at 19:56
Details are available on android developer site. – Karan Mar 15 '11 at 07:22

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 10 '11 at 19:07

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You could also do it with straight HTTP using YQL

YQL console is useful for testing. The example above uses the google.igoogle.stock table

answered Mar 10 '11 at 19:07

slf

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how exactly are you retrieving this data? – locoboy Mar 14 '11 at 04:51
exactly through http get, that's how yql works. How is it indexed into the YQL table? Not sure – slf Mar 15 '11 at 18:57

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 20 '11 at 18:23

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Redistribution of Yahoo Finance data is only allowed if you are using the badges the team has created: http://finance.yahoo.com/badges. Using YQL for non-personal use would be a breach of terms of service.

Google Finance APIs and Tools (Terms)

answered Mar 20 '11 at 18:23

Sheng Jiang 蒋晟

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 10 '11 at 19:02

I think this blog post could help you:

http://benjisimon.blogspot.com/2009/01/truly-simple-stock-api.html

It uses Yahoo Finance to retrieve stock quotes.

This uses the same service, but does it download into a spreadsheet

http://www.gummy-stuff.org/Yahoo-data.htm

However it could be useful since there is a lot of explanaiton.

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 16 '11 at 20:28

Have a look to the BuzzBox SDK for android and in particular to the example here:

http://hub.buzzbox.com/android-sdk/quickstart

The example is using the Yahoo weather api to build a notification weather app. If you simply adapt it to get stock data using YQL as suggesed before YQL

It's a very similar JSON parsing problem.

stock quotes for android

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