Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I’m doing some research on how to pull information from a MySQL DB to display information in an application but I’m wondering what would be a good way to do this? Right now I’m thinking something like…
ANDROID APP <–> HTTP (display XML to pull and display on app) <–> DB Server.
I read about JSON and some other ways to do this, but I just was wondering if anyone knows the best way to do this.
At a high level, yes, that’s how you would do it. JSON is easy to handle on the Android side, so it may be a good choice for you. There are nuances to doing this type of access well on the Android platform that you should be aware of. There is a video on the Android Developer’s site that covers design patterns for accessing REST services from Android. Look for Android REST client applications in the video list.