Thank you Tim, that's super helpful info at this stage of our development cycle.
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Tim Kelly [via Mono for Android]
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> Web service is just a URL and we dynamically build them all the time.
> Matter of fact we use a random number generator. For example, we have
> 20 websites and we us ws_x.hostURL.com. ws_0 ws_1 ws_2 etc etc we also
> dynamically build the hostURL too.
>
> Note however, we dropped web services in our android projects because of
> the overhead. We replaced it with a simply post/get. The network
> overhead of directly consuming web services caused network to memory
> issues. When we added all the SOAP it was BLOATed and caused issues on
> phones etc which have less bandwidth and memory.
>
> After messing around with web services we decided the overhead was too
> much so we built a webpage that accepts Post/Gets. Now, we build a
> special XML record set that only has elements that are not empty (or not
> set to default - no need to pass them). We then encode it, add SOH +
> BLOCK + data + CRC + ETX (yes the old xmodem data pack) and post it to
> the website. The website makes sure there is a SOH and ETX, calculates
> the CRC on data and compares it. Then we process the xml if it passes.
> This reduced our overhead by over 80% compared to using web services.
> We pass binary data the same way. Bottom-line we never noticed issues
> on computers, but when we went to hand held devices (with slower
> bandwidth) the web services was transmitting to much data and causing
> memory issues.
>
>
>
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> We have an application which we want to write some supporting mobile
> apps
> for. The idea is that if you buy our app, it comes with a web service,
> and
> you will host that service on your server, so it has access to your data
> store and can be used to provide access to your data. Therefore the
> interface is strongly typed, but the location is unknown. We're
> expecting
> to write this with WCF. All the examples I am seeing, require me to
> create
> a reference to a service. I can do that, but I'll need to dynamically
> change the location of the service. Are there any examples along those
> lines, or any advice anyone can offer ?
>
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