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rakete
rakete

Reputation: 3051

Best practice for transferring data from cross platform apps to server

for some days me and my colleague are discussing whats the best practice for transferring data from Android, iOS and Windows Phone 7 apps to a windows server in the internet.

The apps on the different platforms should refresh (sync, get new data from server) each 5-10 seconds. The data which should be transferred has a size about 10kb (as plain text).

Now our questions: What is the best practices to transfer this data? (TCP, REST, SOAP, HttpWebRequest??)

How to format the data? (XML, JSON??)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 585

Answers (1)

Alan
Alan

Reputation: 46883

A lot depends on the nature of your application.

The easiest is JSON through a REST interface.

Using HTTP(REST) gives you a number of advantages, one of which that often is overlooked is ease of debugging (setup fiddler as an HTTP proxy).

Unless you need schema validation, there really isn't much of a reason to choose XML over JSON. All platforms have simple json parsing frameworks.

Upvotes: 3

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