Invoke webservices from Android

This is ongoing blog on Getting Started with Android. In earlier blog, I provided an architecture overview of android application, followed by setting up the development environment for Android and creating and running a simple application.

In this blog, I would describe how to invoke web services (soap based services) via Android. In my next blog, I would follow it up with how to invoke REST based services….

Getting Started with Android – Creating Android Application

This is ongoing blog on Getting Started with Android. In earlier blog, I provided an architecture overview of android application. In this blog, I would setup the development environment for Android and create a simple hello world application.

I would say are two ways you could develop Android applications-

The web development way: – Utilizing your web development skills like- HTML, CSS 3 and JavaScript (JQuery libraries). For…

Getting Started with Android

Android is an open source development platform for mobile phones based on Linux, created by Google and Open Handset Alliance. The latest release of Android is 2.3. As a developer you won’t interact with Linux directly, instead you would use the Android application framework (android apis and sdk) for creating applications.

Android applications are written in the Java language, but compiled and converted into the compact Dalvik Executable (.dex) format,…

Deliver XHTML applications to mobile devices

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to deliver XHTML applications to XHTML-enabled mobile devices. We will develop a sample XHTML mobile application that posts requests to a Java servlet and receives responses in XHTML format. We’ll deploy and test the application using the Nokia Mobile Internet Toolkit. Developers who want to extend their Internet applications to wireless devices will want to read on and see how it’s done.

This tutorial…

Build a smart J2ME mobile application tutorial Part 2

This tutorial series shows how to build a mobile database application using the J2ME Record Management System and later synchronize it with a remote Cloudscape database. This is where you will also learn how to craft a MIDlet that performs the necessary logic for creating and accessing the database application and deploying it to a J2ME environment.

In this second tutorial, you’ll synchronize the order information stored in the J2ME…

Build a smart J2ME mobile application tutorial Part 1

This tutorial is the first in a two-part series designed as a step-by-step guide to building a smart J2ME mobile application. In this tutorial you learn how to build a simple mobile application for order placement. The example application uses the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) record management system (J2ME RMS) to store order information and a MIDlet to perform the necessary logic of creating and accessing the database…