fetches data from local Android xml folder having xml file and returns in Arraylist

PreapareListFromXML.java

public ArrayList<string> prepareListFromXml() {

        ArrayList<string> todoItems = new ArrayList<string>();

        XmlResourceParser todolistXml = getResources().getXml(R.xml.todolist);

 

        int eventType = -1;

        while (eventType != XmlResourceParser.END_DOCUMENT) {

            if (eventType == XmlResourceParser.START_TAG) {

 

                String strNode = todolistXml.getName();

                if (strNode.equals("item")) {

                    todoItems.add(todolistXml.getAttributeValue(null, "title"));

                }

            }

 

            try {

                eventType = todolistXml.next();

            } catch (XmlPullParserException e) {

                // TODO Auto-generated catch block

                e.printStackTrace();

            } catch (IOException e) {

                // TODO Auto-generated catch block

                e.printStackTrace();

            }

        }

 

        return todoItems;

    }

todolist.xml

<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?-->

<todoitems>
    <item title="Going to Gym" description="">
    <item title="Get ready for office" description="">
    <item title="Lunch with friends" description="">
    <item title="Going to movie" description="">
</item></item></item></item></todoitems>