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automaton

Reputation: 3108

ASP.NET web service for Android, iOS and BB

I am creating a web service in ASP.NET that needs to be accessed from Android, iOS and BB. The big stickler here is that I do not want to use any libraries on these mobile platforms to read the transmitted data. I know that Android has a JSON parser built-in, but iOS does not. I also know that WCF-format is out, since none of them read that.

Is my only choice using a proprietary format for the transmitted data to be read by these devices? Has anyone found a good (native) format for the communication with the service across the platforms that doesn't involve creating a proprietary format?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1835

Answers (5)

Raymond Wang
Raymond Wang

Reputation: 1484

Blackberry doesn't have built-in support for JSON as far as I know, at least not for older models. iOS doesn't have built-in support for any of the web services so you have to parse the XML manually if you don't use any third party library. I would say you if you want, you can use JSON with some borrowed library. I chose SOAP because I can use it across platforms including some really old windows mobile phones and I want to use as less third party lib as possible.

Upvotes: 0

Patrick
Patrick

Reputation: 109

REST has less overhead than SOAP, since it is just an HTTP GET/POST/PUT/DELETE. If you need something more than simple CRUD however, SOAP may be appropriate.

Upvotes: 0

kgiannakakis
kgiannakakis

Reputation: 104178

Your best bet is to use JSON. Although iPhone SDK doesn't have a built-in SDK library, you will easily find an inplematation (json-framework for example). The big benefit willbe that you could configure WCF to output bare JSON, which will be easily understood by all platforms.

Upvotes: 0

Robby Pond
Robby Pond

Reputation: 73484

Use JSON. It's built into Android and Blackberry, and there are Objective-C libraries to use it with iOS. It's light and compact and easy to create and parse.

Upvotes: 4

Misko
Misko

Reputation: 2044

What is "WCF-format"? ASP.NET web services use SOAP by default. WCF services can also be configured to use SOAP or to be RESTful. SOAP is just XML so any framework with an XML parser should do, and with WCF REST you can work with XML or JSON easily.

Upvotes: 1

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