Re: Interfacing with Android app (and/or iPhone)

2010-07-28 Thread Mario
Hi Shaz, thank you very much for your answer and interesting lead. To answer both in one go - why not just create an app that uses the built in rendering engine (webkit i think) for logging in / identifying user/phone within your app? The package is webkit, you are right, official page at:

Interfacing with Android app (and/or iPhone)

2010-07-27 Thread Mario
Hi all, I have developed with CakePHP a social network website complete with mobile version for mobile browsing. Users are authenticated with Auth and also tracked with cookies if not authenticated. Now I want to develop the related Android app (and later on the iPhone one), but before starting

Re: Interfacing with Android app (and/or iPhone)

2010-07-27 Thread Shaz
* I expect to exchange data via JSON (services already in place for some JS and Flex features) but as the request is not coming from a browser, how do I get info about the user / phone? Some info are contained in the HTTP request? How do I parse them? * Authentication: which the best (and