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Web Requests

This chapter takes us worldwide as we venture even further out from our application to the internet. Beginning with writing some helper classes to manage web requests for us, we will pull data from a live RSS feed and interpret it via some XML processing. With the parsed data at hand, we can then put our QML skills to use and display the items on a new view. Clicking on one of the RSS items will launch a web browser window in order to view the related article in more detail. We will cover the following topics:

Network access
Web Requests
RSS View
RSS

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