1. as a backend for
Android app
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Borort Sort
borort@gmail.com

7. So.. again, WHY Drupal?

12. Why use Drupal to manage
Mobile app data?

13. • 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

14. 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

15. 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.)

16. Service Endpoint
• [endpoint]/node.json
• [endpoint]/node/1.json
• [endpoint]/node.json?parameters[nid]=1

17. 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

19. Why REST?
• Use standard HTTP protocol (simple data
access)
• Performance (Local caching)
• Multiple data formats (JSON, XML, ..)

20. JSON

21. Connecting Android to Drupal

22. Classes
• JSONParser (custom)
• AsynTask

23. DEMO

24. Thank you!