Hello.
Not quite sure if you cover this in the chapter named The Connected World, but some the times the phone may be a front-end device where a client app consumes back-office services. That means we will need at least HTTP to do some requests. Is there any web services (read
SOAP) or REST helper libraries?
How is the usual service consumption treated in mobile, and particular Android.
Now, as opposed to iPhone, Android does allow for concurrency (I mean, several tasks running in my app). Is there a model for a back -
thread that frequently consumes a service to simulate a "push" of information into the phone? Imaging people that want to continuously post their position into a mapping system. Ideas for that?
Thanks.
William Martinez.