Recommendations for .NET Web Service Format/Protocol for Android, iPhone, etc. integration

Question

I am building a web service for my ASP.NET MVC 3 website. Ideally I would like all clients (my web pages, iphone application, android application, windows phone 7 application, e

Answer 1

I would suggest a REST(ful) service with JSON.

Both Android and iOS have libraries that support parsing XML and JSON, however the JSON libraries are a bit easier to use and are a little bit faster.

With a little more effort you could allow your service to provide/consume both XML and JSON.

It would be preferable to avoid SOAP as it is more verbose and not as suitable for the more bandwidth/battery sensitive mobile devices.