Note that it's perfectly feasible to do "pull parsing" with JSON, and I believe there are packages to do that. It's not done very often, though, since the "in-core" representation of JSON is generally several times more compact than the equivalent representation of XML, so there's no need for it.
On May 30, 9:10 pm, Streets Of Boston <[email protected]> wrote: > The original question wat about *consuming* web services, not necessarily > creating them. The answer to your question is: > > - When you don't have control of server-side that provides the REST > services, and/or > - When the REST services are going to be accessed by more than just > mobile clients.... > Due to small screen real estate, mobile clients could show a smaller view > on the data/resources retrieved from a REST service (less items, less > detail) while other clients, such as desktop clients, could show/handle in > full detail the entire representation returned by that same REST service. -- 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
