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Asked: 2026-05-30T11:20:02+00:00

I’m developing android app. It’s some sort of social network. Where user can add

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I’m developing android app. It’s some sort of social network. Where user can add friend and some few stuff. I’ve been working on php for quite a time now. But android is totally new for me. The app will be served by a web service.
My android skill are not good. So total time I spend on working on android part is more. So I’m thinking is there any framework that can be used to serve my application. With this I can reduce time to implement web service. I know some of framework but as I have not worked with them, I don’t know how much they can be extended to fit in my need. OR should I implement it by my own without any framework ?

All the suggestions, advises will be extremely helpful.

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  1. Editorial Team

    In my opinion you should definitely go with a framework, so you can concentrate more on developing the Android app.

    Important is, that you choose your backend framework wisley. So it should be a lightweight and/or RAD (Rapid Application Development) framework, which enables you to use code generation for common patterns to get startet very fast.

    I can recommend Ruby on Rails. If you want to stick with PHP, then my recommandation would be Symfony 2 or Kohana. Using those frameworks, you should concept and implement an API, preferably RESTful, which provides your Android application with data and can be used later on for all other kind of mobile apps or third party applications.

    If you go with Symfony 2 you can have a look for the FOSRestBundle – a bundle which provides tools to create a RESTful API.

    Further on, Symfony 2 comes with a very good documentation – including a getting started section, as well as a cookbook.

    So,… happy coding. 🙂

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