RPC call with android

[Thomas Lefort]

I would like to have the same servlets for an application that will
work on both android and web with GWT. At the moment I am using JSON
responses to handle that but I would prefer having something like the
GWT RPC or RequestFactory. Any idea if it is possible. There is
nothing on that in the Android doc.
Thanks,
Thomas

[Thomas Broyer]

GWT SyncProxy allows you to call GWT-RPC services from a Java app, but it apparently does not work on Android.

As for RequestFactory, it has built-in support for running in the JVM, and it should work on Android: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-web-toolkit-contributors/-AJR5tX20XU/4TN-joicYd8J

[Thomas Lefort]

Thanks! I will try the RequestFactory hack, although it seems like
there might be a third (and easier?) way with JSON-RPC from the
discussions.


On Feb 24, 11:28 am, Thomas Broyer <t.bro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> GWT SyncProxy <http://code.google.com/p/gwt-syncproxy/> allows you to call
> GWT-RPC services from a Java app, but it apparently does not work on Android<http://code.google.com/p/gwt-syncproxy/issues/detail?id=3>
> .

>
> As for RequestFactory, it has built-in support for running in the JVM, and
> it should work on

> Android:https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-web-toolkit-contributors/-AJR5...

[Chii]

I m expecting that both RequestFactory and gwt-rpc has less overhead than vanilla json (at least, in terms of bandwidth - not sure about cpu requirement differences between them), but if it turns out that neither works on android, then it would suck to have to switch to json.

[Preethum Prithviraj]

In the event anyone else still needs it, I just put out a 0.4 release for the SyncProxy system, which includes a separate Android library. It can always use more work, but I've got enough testing on it that for now, I believe it's stable for integration into the majority of projects needing it. The front page will hopefully get updated by the project owner soon, but in the meantime the jar's are available for download and details on usage are in the Wiki.

https://code.google.com/p/gwt-syncproxy/

On Sunday, March 3, 2013 10:32:12 AM UTC-5, Preethum Prithviraj wrote:

I'd been needing something like this for a GAE based project I'm working on. Using the code from the gwt-syncproxy project, I created an Android library and I've got got a dev mode working mock up of an android client using GWT-RPC to the server and using the native android account system to login to GAE. I've still got quite a bit of testing to do, but I've contacted the owner of the gwt-syncproxy project to look at getting this integrated into their project once I finish testing it in a couple of weeks.