Tips for writing server side code to a Android client

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Anybody got any experience writing the server side of an Android client featuring authentication and possibly encryption?

Posted 29-Oct-13 9:39am

FantasticFiasco

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 30-Oct-13 1:43am

Why do you think that a WebService should be specific to an Android client? On of the purposes of WebServices is to have services agnostic to the client OS...
—SA

FantasticFiasco 30-Oct-13 2:49am

You are of course correct in your statement, but it seems that the Android HTTP client has a couple of limitations and those might force me to make certain design decisions on the server side.

I would like to know developers have coped with these limitations.

pasztorpisti 30-Oct-13 3:59am

In worst case you write a simple http client that suits your needs on top of TCP. Writing a http client on top of TCP is very easy if you don't have to support all http features. An easier solution is searching for a java/C/C++ client depending on the language you use.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 30-Oct-13 9:15am

Writing HTTP protocol itself, on top of TCP, is of course not a very difficult problem, but what would you advice to do if an "HTTP client" is supposed to be a fully-fledged Web browser?
—SA

pasztorpisti 30-Oct-13 9:55am

A web browser is (an operating system) a platform... :-) I wouldn't start writing another one besides the existing ones unless I wanted to dedicate the rest of my life to it.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 30-Oct-13 11:38am

Exactly... So, I guess I don't understand how your idea on writing custom HTTP implementation on client side could be practically used. Care to enlighten?
—SA

pasztorpisti 30-Oct-13 12:35pm

Browsers are not the only http clients. ;-) Of course in this case the client is probably a browser but for some reason I associated to a http client built into a non-browser program. Probably because I have worked on such projects quite often in the past few months...

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