Question

I made application in ASP.NET MVC3 and I want to connect application with Android.
So first step is to make Web Service, that will communicate with Android.
But I’m new in this area and I don’t know how to start.
Does anyone have some tutorial for making Web Service for ASP.NET MVC3 application?
Also I need instructions for connecting Android with that Web Service?

Answer 1

You really have two questions here, and unfortunately the Android one is a little too broad to answer quickly. So… let’s tackle your first question.

In MVC it is pretty easy to create a simple web service. Create a controller and return JSON from it:

public class PersonController: Controller{

   public JsonResult Index(){
      var personList = GetFromDB();

      return Json(personList, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
   }

   [HttpPost, ActionName("Index")]
   public JsonResult CreatePerson(Person newPerson){
      var insertedPerson = InsertIntoDB(newPerson);

      return Json(insertedPerson);
   }

}

Now, with the default routing in place you can simply call those methods with the following URL, and the appropriate HTTP Verb.

http://www.mydomain.com/person

However, it may be worth mentioning this is far easier to do using ASP.Net WebAPI.