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What are the best practices to design webservices for mobile (particularly Android) apps? Personally I'm focused on using JSON (and not XML) and I try to make it the less verbose I can. But I'm probably missing a lot of things.

lethargicpanda
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The stuff I've read so far indicates that there is too much of a processing overhead when calling a traditional webservice using SOAP and parsing xml. The best advice was to make your webservice RESTful and use JSON. There's some good information on this earlier question: How to call a SOAP web service on Android

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John J Smith
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XML parsing on Android is supposed to be faster than the built-in JSON parser as the former is backed by native code. However, some people have used a different JSON parser (http://jackson.codehaus.org/) with success.

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The GSON parser also works well with Android in my experience. Given that a shot if you're sending / received JSON payloads.

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