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Comment on Calling a REST web service from Android by Mark Freeman

Mark Freeman — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:03:14 +0000

@HK I think this would really depend on the use case for your app. In my production app, I have all request coming from a single class, but they are triggered from various activities and typically make calls where a very limited amount of data is returned. This is really the chatty vs chunky debate, but it really boils down to a design preference.

Comment on Calling a REST web service from Android by Mark Freeman

Mark Freeman — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:01:15 +0000

@Jouva, you are correct in many ways. While I don’t agree that the code should always be outside of the activity class, it should be contained within separate thread. This example doesn’t quite go far enough to explain the situation, however is rather intended to give a small and easy to read example of how to make the request itself.

In my live app, I actually launch a thread to make the web service calls and show a progress dialog to the user. In my particular use case, I do not want to allow the user to interact with the screen while the service is running.

Comment on Book Review: Learning Java for Android Development by jone

jone — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:49:36 +0000

good book

Comment on Calling a REST web service from Android by HK

HK — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:09:23 +0000

Hi, I have a question.
I have many REST requests [around 20] to be used in my app. I have watched the valuable session in Google I/O mentioned above. My question is, which is the better approach. To have single service handling all the requests in single service? or to have a dedicated service for each of the requests?
I have some of the requests that should be fired sequentially and some of them can be fired simultaneously.
Any suggestions ?

Comment on Calling a REST web service from Android by Jouva

Jouva — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:42:22 +0000

NOOOOOOOOO! NO NO NO NO NO! DO NOT USE THIS EXAMPLE VERBATIM!!!

Some of the code here might be useful for understanding how to make the HTTP request and parse the results but DO NOT do it like this! NEVER put ANY code that relies on slow components (network, database, file reading, etc) inside of your Activity thread! THIS is what causes “Application Not Responding” nearly all of the time. AND if your application dies (e.g. you got a call), you will not be able to always leave off from where your app was.

Google had a decent discussion at I/O about ideas of how to do proper REST stuff with Android (no code though) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHXn3Kg2IQE

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spaetz — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:55:49 +0000

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Comment on Android Application Development – a review by Android

Android — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 06:40:55 +0000

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Comment on Calling a REST web service from Android by Sujata

Sujata — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:14:12 +0000

I have a REST library called resting (http://code.google.com/p/resting)which can be used to invoke HTTP and HTTPS REST services with parameters and get the list of objects from HTTP response in a single step. Please take a look

Comment on Calling a REST web service from Android by Sean

Sean — Fri, 06 May 2011 15:02:44 +0000

I am new to Android. Sorry about the question. I have created an application and it is using the SAXparser to retrieve the xml infromation from the Resfull web service. I am not using any HTTPclient. I have tested on the local network and it is working fine. Why do I need the HTTPclient? Thanks.