Restful API service

Question

I\'m looking to make a service which I can use to make calls to a web-based REST API.

Basically I want to start a service on app init then I want to be able to ask t

Answer 1

There is another approach here which basically helps you to forget about the whole management of the requests. It is based on an async queue method and a callable/callback based response. The main advantage is that by using this method you'll be able to make the whole process (request, get and parse response, sabe to db) completely transparent for you. Once you get the response code the work is already done. After that you just need to make a call to your db and you are done. It helps as well with the problematic of what happens when your activity is not active. What will happen here is that you'll have all your data saved in your local database but the response won't be processed by your activity, that's the ideal way.

I wrote about a general approach here http://ugiagonzalez.com/2012/07/02/theres-life-after-asynctasks-in-android/

I'll be putting specific sample code in upcoming posts. Hope it helps, feel free to contact me for sharing the approach and solving potential doubts or issues.