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Asked: 2026-05-20T14:42:54+00:00

I have looked on here and anddev for a suitable response, but haven’t found

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I have looked on here and anddev for a suitable response, but haven’t found anything suitable.
Here is the question: My friend has an instant chat application with iPhone, and since I have some basic android experience he asked me to check out “porting” it to Android. So before I set up the UI, I decided to look into php which I don’t have much experience with. I know the UI will need an array to call contacts, but I’m not sure about retrieving the information from the php.

How do I know if I can use his script or not? I haven’t found any good tutorials about Android and Php – has anyone found one?

I might as well learn this stuff now because my next app will require an online database to be used in it – I know his has users and passwords, and he’d like to be able to send im’s between iPhone and Android clients.

Thanks for any help you may provide!

EDIT:

Yes, this issue is more related to http requests from android to a remote server; I have changed the tags and subject accordingly, but would still appreciate a guide to android-friendly php writing. Thank you!

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  1. Editorial Team

    There really isn’t Android-Friendly PHP but there is mobile friendly PHP. Basically, you need your PHP scripts to emit something that is easy to parse in an application (like XML or JSON) rather than the standard HTML. After that, all you need to do is figure out what the API should look like on the server side. That is, what functions does the server need to provide and how is it going to provide them. Are you going to use simple HTTP authentication or are you going to use something more complicated?

    With regards to his chat application, I would imagine that if he already has an iPhone version, then you won’t need to mess with the sever side at all. All you need to do is figure out what URLs and parameters to use for what operations. You also need to ask him what data format his server uses. If it’s XML, you need to find an XML parser, if it’s JSON then you need to find a JSON parser etc. (there are plenty of tutorials on how to do both in Android via Google). I would start by asking him, at a high-level, not with Objective-C specifics, how his chat application communicates with the sever. You can then use that to build your application to communicate in the same manner.

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