Yes, a web crawler, although I can't say I know much about it. Research time I guess.
Thank you. -Matt On Dec 22, 10:53 am, WoodManEXP <woodman...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Sounds like you are talking about writing a crawler, basically :-) > (Fooling thewebsite into believing you are just another user with a > browser). To input Username/Password between your app and theweb > server you will likely need to construct a Post, containing the UID > and Password, to send to the Roger's Wireless login URL. Togetback > the info you read the results of the Post and parse out the info from > the returned HTML. (There may also be ssl involved if you want to keep > the uid/pwd encrypted on the wire). > > If you are lucky there might be awebservice interface to Roger's > Wireless(Canada) in which case you may be able to use JSON or XML or > something else to wrap up the communications in a more structured > form. > > If there is nowebservices interface and you will be using the > crawler style interface you will use the org.apache.http.* interfaces > to deal with the http communications. These packages are all in the > Android system. > > If you have awebservices interface you will also use org.w3c.dom.* > interfaces for XML parsing. Of if it is JSON you can use the open- > source json. Interfaces (the sources of which you will need to include > in your app) > > The interfaces for the DOM are in the Android system. JSON is not and > will need to be included in your app. > > Hope this helps… > > On Dec 22, 3:18 am, Matthew Patience <matthewj.patie...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I'm attempting to create an app that will display usageinformation > > for customers of Roger's Wireless(Canada). I was wondering if someone > > could point me in the right direction on how to: > > > 1) input Username and Password info directly awebtextbox to sign the > > Customer in, from an EditText View. > > > 2) grab usageinformationin the form of text or images to display to > > the user within the app. > > > Just a pointer in the right direction on what method(s) would do this > > for me. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
