Take a look at the Jackson JSON library, its a very nice implementation and is more performant than Android's built in classes. It provides methods for fast serialization of user objects to JSON and back again:
http://jackson.codehaus.org/ Jonathan On Dec 21, 7:14 am, Leon Moreyn-Android Development <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Brill. I will take this into consideration. > > On Dec 21, 12:42 am, Brill Pappin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I wouldn't be too hasty about removing the JSON. XML will cost you more in > > terms of resources and connecting directly to a database is likely also > > going to be more costly (although without seeing the actual implementation, > > I can't be sure of that). > > > JSON is actually about as perfect as it gets for mobile devices... you could > > only get better by implementing your own protocol and even then your likely > > not going to save much. > > > Also note that connecting directly to the database means that the database > > is exposed on the net in general and will present security problems. > > Although databases have security, they are not designed to ward off all the > > worms that are constantly probing a public address looking for a weak spot. > > > You can deploy something like MongoDB (which presents it's data as JSON > > anyway) but it's not recommended. > > > However, after rereading your post, I think you are attempting to put a web > > service between your app and the database. This is exactly how the rest of > > us will be doing it, but you don't need to get rid of JSON, in fact JSON is > > what 90% of the apps in the market will be using. > > > If your asking how you build that web service, I recommend Jersey REST API > > as a good place to start. There are plenty of other frameworks out there for > > doing it though, so find one you like. > > > - Brill Pappin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" 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/android-developers?hl=en
