Creating Web Service for Android Application

Question

I\'ve been reading some info about Web Services for Android using SOAP or REST but I\'ve never created a web service so I have many qu

Answer 1

Your final choice of how, exactly, to architect your app, is going to be based on all sorts of things that you haven't included in your questions: your experience, the experience of the other developers in the project, so on and so on.

I will say this, however. REST is deep in the heart of Android. If you decide to go with REST and, possibly, JSON instead of XML (there is, almost certainly, no reason to use byte arrays), you will find that Android's architecture supports you. SOAP and such and you are on your own.