Question

I have taken up an assignment for a website and I am creating an android app for them. I am new to android programming and also new to web programming (using xml, http post and get, etc.).

My doubt is a basic one. I am trying to create the login page for this website and I don’t know if the url of the website is sufficient or I need some other data such as the website’s server address. And if I do need the web server address, is there a way to obtain this from my browser? Or do I ask the people who made the website itself for this?

P.S. I apologize if this is a very basic doubt. Bear with me. I am a beginner.

Answer 1

I am not an android application expert but I think you would need to get details about the following :

1. How to pass authentication details to server, for example if you need to get a SAML token from any of the ID servers? Or is it just sending out the plain username and password.
   Just the website url may not be enough.

Please have a look at the weblink for authenticating against openID or SAML technologies
https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/MobileApps