Hi Jason, IMO you should have a server and communicate with it. Here are the factors I'd consider against making calls from the mobile device itself. Note that there is nothing stopping you technically from doing this; AdWords API uses SOAP, which is nothing more than an HTTPS POST.
- Client library availability: There's no Objective C library, so if you are going to make calls from the device, you'd need to find a soap library and deal with stub code on your own. For Android, I think the Java client library might work fine. - Bulk of data: Depending on what you do with the API and the account size you deal with, your responses can range from a few tens of KBs, to several hundred MBs (e.g. keyword performance reports). If your application is doing stats reporting using reports, then processing that much data on a mobile device can be both challenging in terms of response size (and hence data plan costs) and memory / disk. Cheers, Anash P. Oommen, AdWords API Advisor. On Wednesday, April 2, 2014 2:00:43 PM UTC-4, Jason Williams wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > I'm in the process of defining a requirement for a Mobile App (iOS/Android > smartphones/tablets) and i'm looking for some guidence on the use of the > API in terms of integration with smartphones / tablets. > > 1. Can we have the Mobile App communicate directly with the API and > retrieve appropriate data to process and display within the Mobile App > itself > > OR > > 2. Do we have to have a Web App acting as a gateway to the Adwords API to > authenticate, processes information and returning the data to the Mobile > App? > > Many Thanks, > > Jas... > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and Google+: https://googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com/ https://plus.google.com/+GoogleAdsDevelopers/posts =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
