Web Services

[Manassés Souza]

Hello Damon and Sébastien

Thanks for your investment on the Android Plataform! I'm a Java developer, Android fan and starter.

I want to know if the book coverage some Web Services concepts for application development or Android related frameworks. I read some about KSOAP for this...

Best regards!

[Ulf Dittmer]

If you had followed the link to the book's Amazon page, you would have discovered quickly that the book does not cover native Android programming at all. It is about optimizing web sites for displaying/running on Android.

[Burk Hufnagel]

Ulf Dittmer wrote:If you had followed the link to the book's Amazon page, you would have discovered quickly that the book does not cover native Android programming at all. It is about optimizing web sites for displaying/running on Android.

That's odd. AfterI read the listing on Amazon, it seems to me that the book is about writing Android apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Real apps that access the Android APIs and don't require a web site to operate.

Burk

[Ulf Dittmer]

Well, it does mention the PhoneGap library, which looks like a bridge into native Android code and/or functionality. The rest sounds like web apps to me; I'm sure the authors can provide clarification :-)

[Monu Tripathi]

Manassés Souza wrote:
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I want to know if the book coverage some Web Services concepts for application development or Android related frameworks. I read some about KSOAP for this...

Best regards!

Webservices form a different specification; creating one would be a J2EE exercise.

However, you generally and mostly consume such WebServices from the phone and there are some approaches you can try.

[Sebastien Blanc]

Creating webservices is indeed of the topic of this book, but consuming webservices (REST based) directly from your javascript code is covered and explained.

[Damon Oehlman]

Hey Guys,

I will try and add some clarification to for this thread. As Ulf (and Burk) point out the book is focused primarily on creating applications using HTML, CSS and Javascript. This is somewhat of a different approach to what most people in this forum may be used to but it certainly has some merits (which are being nicely discussed in other threads on the forum).

As for whether we cover consuming a SOAP webservice, no we don't and the resources Monu points to would be a good starting place if you are looking to do this from a native Android application.

The book certainly has more than one example of consuming RESTful (and RESTlike) webservices which is probably more common from Javascript code, but as this thread on stack overflow points out it is possible to consume SOAP webservices from Javascript also.

Cheers,
Damon.