Download - Using Drupal as a backend for Android app

BarCamp Phnom Penh – 13-14 Sep 2014

Borort [email protected]

as a backend for Android app

So.. again, WHY Drupal?

Why use Drupal to manage Mobile app data?

• Has everything you need for content management and permissions

• Very flexible in providing a JSON REST interface

• Don’t have to write lots of server-side code from scratch

• Large Drupal community support

Configuring Drupal to be the backend for Mobile

• Install Services 3 module for Drupal to act as a REST server

• Set up an endpoint URL for the REST service

• Enable resources to expose at that endpoint

Drupal Services 3.0

• A standardized solution of integrating external applications with Drupal

• Resource oriented (CRUD = create, retrieve, update, delete, index)

• Provide web services via multiple interfaces (REST, XMLRPC, SOAP, JSON, etc.)

Service Endpoint

• [endpoint]/node.json• [endpoint]/node/1.json• [endpoint]/node.json?

parameters[nid]=1

Drupal Services Views

• Create view based resource creating Services display in a view

[endpoint]/[resource name]

[endpoint]/[resource name]?tags=1

• Execute any view via views resource call

[endpoint]/views/[view name]

[endpoint]/views/[view name]? filters[tags]=1

Why REST?

• Use standard HTTP protocol (simple data access)

• Performance (Local caching)• Multiple data formats (JSON, XML, ..)

Connecting Android to Drupal

Classes

• JSONParser (custom)• AsynTask

Thank you!