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

2010-06-13 Thread StillALearner
@Vinod : I hope u mean the kSoap jar,but my main concern is the payload, when it comes to SOAP services i felt it to be bit heavy (help me understand if its the other way).I want it to be as light- weight as possible. @Doug : The Video PDF was really useful and inline with my search :) On Jun

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

2010-06-13 Thread ko5tik
Do you send or receive? Large data requires some kind of pull parser - there is native pull parser for XML (in android) but not for JSON. So for 1: if you receive try to use XML with pull parser, or some 3rd party library for JSON prividing same functionality for 2: it does not matter. I use

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

2010-06-12 Thread doug
Check out this guy - http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions/developing-RESTful-android-apps.html Even though he sounds like a cross between Yoda and Grover. On Jun 11, 7:37 am, StillALearner k.mad...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Paul,  Everything else seems a bit too heavy Thats the exact

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

2010-06-12 Thread Desu Vinod Kumar
U can try soap webservices also but it is not part of android api there is third party jar file for using this. On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 5:52 PM, doug doug.di...@gmail.com wrote: Check out this guy - http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions/developing-RESTful-android-apps.html Even

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

2010-06-11 Thread StillALearner
Thanks Paul, Everything else seems a bit too heavy Thats the exact concern for why i have been hunting around different forums to check out for a better option, and as u said JSON with a RESTful service is one option am closely looking at. and other part which i need suggestion is on the Data