Android App Development and Web Server Interactions

Question

I am just learning about Android Development so excuse me if this is a bit off in nature. I am wanting to make an app that interacts with a Database from my website, in a se

Answer 1

Based on my experience, the best framework for doing RESTFul things with Android is: Spring Android

From a client perspective, it provides all the tools needed to access secure RESTFul services. Since it is Spring, it provides nice abstractions over most of the boiler plate http code. As an example, it provides a clean way to perform a GET that returns json, and then serialize that to a POJO.

As an example:

RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();

// Add Jackson JSON Message Converter to Template
restTemplate.setMessageConverters(
    new ArrayList>() {
        {              
            add(new MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter());
        }
    }
);  

// Simple Conversion - pojo is now populated
MyPojo pojo = restTemplate.getForObject(url, MyPojo.class);