I want to develop a application on Android platform to connect to salesforce. From what i have found salesforce provides service API’s which can be used to connect to salesforce servers by creating a Web service from the client side application.
Salesforce developer site has examples of creating such a Web service by using Apache Axis as the SOAP client and using the WSDL file downloaded from the salesforce website. I want to know can this be done from Android platform?
Is there a version of Apache Axis ported for Android? I did some googling and could find that Android does not have a inbuilt SOAP client and usually Ksoap is used on Android.
But I have also read that KSOAP doesnt support WSDL.
I have seen the above question asked before but quite a while ago, As Android platform has emerged eversince I want to know what is the current situation and options of doing this.
Also, Since I am new to Android and development on Android if anyone can direct me to a sample code snippet, which creates a Web Service from android to connect to salesforce, I would be higly grateful.
Thanks in Advance.
Edit: Is there any other way to develop an Salesforce client on Android without the above approach? I am running out of ideas 🙁
Not really an answer, but…
There will be a webinar about REST API for Salesforce soon. With pure HTTP and JSON you might be able to avoid SOAP problems 🙂
It’s a “developer preview”, meaning that probably this functionality will be officially released this autumn/winter.
https://www.developerforce.com/events/rest_developer_preview/registration.php?d=70130000000FV4P