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Android

Posted by Rodrigo Muñoz
Rodrigo Muñoz
Courses Plus Student 20,171 Points

Develop a Mobile app that summarize text

I'm learning how develop and Android app using Java. But it seems that I wouldn't be able to implement technology that summarize text automatically. But it looks like I need another technology to summarize texts. Any advice to keep on going?

4 Answers

Ernest Grzybowski
Ernest Grzybowski
Treehouse Project Reviewer
Ernest Grzybowski
Ernest Grzybowski
Treehouse Project Reviewer

It's difficult to know exactly what you're trying to do. If you're trying to come up with an algorithm that will summarize any amount of text you throw at it and it will summarize it into two to three lines, then of course you can do this with java. But the million dollar question is "How?"

Rodrigo Muñoz
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Rodrigo Muñoz
Courses Plus Student 20,171 Points
Rodrigo Muñoz
Rodrigo Muñoz
Courses Plus Student 20,171 Points

Well I would like to summarize news feeds from my rss reader automatically with the app so like having 3 or 4 paragraphs with the most important things form the news. Any ideas?

Ernest Grzybowski
Ernest Grzybowski
Treehouse Project Reviewer
Ernest Grzybowski
Ernest Grzybowski
Treehouse Project Reviewer

That's totally up to the programmer to decide. There's no formula for "summarizing the most important things". It's totally doable though. Try breaking your problem into tiny smaller problems that are manageable and you can overcome. When you get stuck on one of these smaller problems, that would be the right time to reach out and us (in my opinion).

I guess to answer your question. Yes, you can do this all in Java on the Android platform.

Rodrigo Muñoz
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Rodrigo Muñoz
Courses Plus Student 20,171 Points
Rodrigo Muñoz
Rodrigo Muñoz
Courses Plus Student 20,171 Points

Nice! Thanks man.