# Sliding Doors: ten years of RSS-Parser

DevFeed: [Sliding Doors: ten years of RSS-Parser](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/sliding-doors-ten-years-of-rss-parser-25593.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.marcogomiero.com/posts/2026/rss-parser-ten-years/>)

Author: Marco Gomiero

Published: 2026-06-17T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Posts on Marco Gomiero](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/posts-on-marco-gomiero.md>)

Topics: [RSS Feed](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rss-feed.md>), [RSS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rss.md>), [Mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mobile.md>), [Kotlin](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kotlin.md>), [Coroutines](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coroutines.md>), [Java](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/java.md>), [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [iOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ios.md>), [macOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/macos.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [coroutines](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coroutines.md>), [ios](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ios.md>), [java](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/java.md>), [kotlin](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kotlin.md>), [macos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/macos.md>), [mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mobile.md>), [rss](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rss.md>), [xml](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/xml.md>)

## AI overview

The author reflects on ten years of RSS-Parser, a library that began as part of an RSS-reading app and was later published for other developers. The article describes how the project contributed to the author's learning and career, including its move from Java to Kotlin and Coroutines, and its continued use in developing a new RSS app.

## Source excerpt

Today marks ten years since the first commit of RSS-Parser. TEN YEARS. I want to use this opportunity to reflect on the journey of this library, the sliding doors moments along the way, and the chain of events that made RSS-Parser an important part of my career. The bare bones of the library started earlier, though; it was 2015 when I wrote my first app that I've published to the Play Store. This app was for reading the articles of the tech blog that I was collaborating with (for a while I was reviewing apps, phones, consumer tech - that's when I fell in love with mobile). The blog was built (of course) with the good old WordPress, and at the time I discovered that you can have the published articles formatted in XML - yes, I discovered the existence of RSS.