Calling webservice from android application without Ksoap

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What would be best and simplest way to call Yahoo weather webservice/any json webservice in android? Some people suggest not to use Ksoap for mobile application instead use Restful or Json webservice.

TIA Bhaskar

this seems to be a more useful answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/32198459/2027232 — string.Empty, Aug 25 '15 at 07:57

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 09 '11 at 16:42

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In short, use HttpClient, HttpGet, and JSONObject

Without any more details, this is probably similar to what you are attempting: http://www.josecgomez.com/2010/04/30/android-accessing-restfull-web-services-using-json/

answered May 09 '11 at 16:42

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Thanks it worked so far. Now I am looking for list of available webservices which are restful and jason enabled. Like flight tracker and weather service etc. – snail May 09 '11 at 19:16

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

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Here's another post where this is discussed:

How to call a SOAP web service on Android

If you really want to be simple, just embed the content of the message in a HttpClient (included with Android by default) and manually parse the result.

Here (http://breaking-catch22.com/?p=127) is a link to an example of calling a REST web service.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

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answered May 09 '11 at 16:48

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My journey started from the same link you sent, but did not have much idea of restfull webservice initially so dropped that but djg's link, given below, just worked fine. – snail May 09 '11 at 19:18

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 09 '11 at 17:03

Have a look at how Google APIs Client Library for Java does it, for example in this YouTube sample using HttpTransport and JSON:

http://code.google.com/p/google-api-java-client/source/browse?repo=samples#hg%2Fyoutube-jsonc-sample%2Fsrc%2Fcom%2Fgoogle%2Fapi%2Fclient%2Fsample%2Fyoutube

Calling webservice from android application without Ksoap

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