[android-developers] Best way for web service calls ??

2010-06-09 Thread StillALearner
Hello,
I have been trying to develop an android application for sometime now
and i would like to get some suggestion on the best way of making web
service calls or to be generic the best way of communication between
the android platform and web server.
Soap(using Ksoap) and HTTP(using POST) are two methodologies  XML and
JSON are the two data formats that am aware of,(let me know if they
are few other options too..) and ,
i would like to know what is the best option of data transfer when
i) the data to transfer is Large and less frequent.
ii) more frequent but less data is being transfered.

Also when it comes to data synchronization between server and our
app , how is that generally implemented ??

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Re: [android-developers] Best way for web service calls ??

2010-06-09 Thread paulb
I tend to make RESTful requests over HTTP and expect back JSON
results. Everything else seems a bit too heavy.

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:15 PM, StillALearner k.mad...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello,
 I have been trying to develop an android application for sometime now
 and i would like to get some suggestion on the best way of making web
 service calls or to be generic the best way of communication between
 the android platform and web server.
 Soap(using Ksoap) and HTTP(using POST) are two methodologies  XML and
 JSON are the two data formats that am aware of,(let me know if they
 are few other options too..) and ,
 i would like to know what is the best option of data transfer when
 i) the data to transfer is Large and less frequent.
 ii) more frequent but less data is being transfered.

 Also when it comes to data synchronization between server and our
 app , how is that generally implemented ??

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