1. Yes. 2. You can consume web services with Android, which has built-in webkit, JSON, XML, etc., and for which you can get third-party libraries for protocols like SOAP.
Yusuf Saib Android ·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 2, 3:09 pm, Roman <roman.baumgaert...@t-mobile.com> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
