I agree that JSON is sweet for packaging messages since XML's verbosity takes unnecessary bandwidth and CPU cycles.
Still wondering if anybody has an alternative to polling the server, such as a "server push" approach? On Dec 27, 11:33 am, Wayne Wenthin <wa...@fuligin.com> wrote: > I'll second the JSON idea. I didn't know about it until about 9 months ago > and now I couldn't see doing what I do without it. > > > > On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 3:53 AM, Yves Glodt <y...@mind.lu> wrote: > > I suggest using JSON instead of XML. One reason would be that tt is more > > lightweight than XML. > > > Doing JSON in PHP is easy, basically try to get your query result as a > > two-dimensional array, and use json_encode to transform it to JSON. > > > On the Android side, you can use org.json (which is part of the Android > > platform) to "parse" the JSON-response and use the data in your app. > > > best regards, > > Yves > > > 2009/12/24 Skid <nski...@googlemail.com> > > > I have no experience in this sort of thing which is why I'm asking for > >> advise, I need to pull data off a MySQL database on my server, the > >> data doesn't need to be updated contently just ever minute at the very > >> least. I want to do it by sending a http request to a php page and > >> have that php page create xml page that the android app would read and > >> then work with. > > >> The reason I would like to do it that way is just because I know php > >> better then I know java and its something I've done before when > >> working with AJAX. However I don't know how to go about doing this, or > >> even if this would be a good way to do it in the first place, so I > >> could use some advise on the matter. > > >> If someone could point me to a code snippit I could play around with > >> to do this I would appreciate it. > > >> Thanks, > >> :) Skid :) > > >> -- > >> 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<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > >> For more options, visit this group at > >>http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > -- > > 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<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > Writing code is one of few things > that teaches me I don't know everything. > > Join the Closed Beta of Call Girl Managerhttp://www.fuligin.com/forums -- 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
