Android is a very powerful platform which supports several radio interfaces.
For your communication to a backend server Wifi as well as 3G are pretty fast. Regarding the communication to the server in the backend you might have to resolve NAT traversal problems but otherwise than this I don't see any limitations (besides that you are running on an embedded device). -- Roman Baumgaertner Sr. SW Engineer-OSDC ·T· · ·Mobile· stick together The views, opinions and statements in this email are those of the author solely in their individual capacity, and do not necessarily represent those of T-Mobile USA, Inc. On Aug 1, 3:03 am, Grubber <gra...@onemansweightloss.co.uk> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am new to android development and mobile development in general. > > I am interested in writing an application for a private client (not > for public release). In brief the application will be used by feild > staff and will communicate with a webservice back at base. My > questions are as follows... > > 1. Is Android a suitable platform for this kind of work. > 2. Can you consume web services from Android this way? > > Thanks in advance > > Graham --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
