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.