android

I'm interested in hearing how people are using Drupal to support mobile devices/touchscreens for location and mapping projects. I see two ways one would approach this:

1) Build an app that runs natively on the platform that interfaces with Drupal through a REST interface (Sounds like Heyrocker (Services module) is pushing for the Butler project http://buytaert.net/drupal-in-a-tablet-world)

2) Build support for mobile devices/touchscreen devices into the javascript libraries we are using to display maps to browsers.

3) Other suggestions? :)

I recently posted a case study on our competition entry FringeFest.ca, for the Apps4Edmonton competition that made use of Drupal, Appcelerator Titanium and Mobile Webkit to create a web app, iphone app and smartphone friendly version of the web app using Open Data made available by the City of Edmonton.

Key modules include: Services, Feeds, JSON Server, Views, Location and more detailed in the case study

This is intended to be an initial set of resources for those looking at getting started in this exciting area of drupal/mobile app development.

These resources are largely the work of Sumit Kataria of Civic Actions and my interest and excitement stem from this awesome presentation at Drupalcon SF2010 http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/sessions/developing-apps-iphoneipada...

The presentation is broken down a little further with some provided code samples and an adjusted json server module.

Drupalcamp 8 NYC Session Proposal:

Duration: 1 hour

Brief description: This session will present architectural considerations for developing mobile applications with Drupal. It focuses on design patterns and platform integration.

Just like Wordpress for Android. This is an application for Android to manage multiple Drupal sites for common tasks such as content/comment managements, user approval, comment notification and so on.

Goals

• Configure and manage multiple Drupal sites
• Moderate nodes and comments as well as reply to comments
• Create node with upload attachments
• Notification for new nodes and new comments

Background Knowledge

• XML-RPC
• Android - We can use Wordpress for Android as a basement. http://android.svn.wordpress.org/

Dear all,

I am writing an android app currently and I am a newbie in web app.
I need to connect the android app that I write to a drupal site and get some data or submit data to it with the app.

I tried just using the xml-rpc server and try to connect to it with the android app but no luck yet.
For some reason, the app keep getting the output "invalid api key" which is actually not true. I know it must be some coding problem in my android app but I don't know what it is.

I am from the industrial controls world, where we use a lot of embedded controls. I see no reason why drupal would not be an excellent batch scheduling system. Its almost perfect infact.

But there is just one glaring problem with it that I can not figure out at the moment, and I could really use some help. Its the DATASOURCE module. is it really working? and where is the documentation.

Hi Guys,

Assume most of you guys heard about the open mobile platform called Android that google announced yesterday. It's interesting news and while the SDK won't be available to download until next week (Nov 12th), I was wondering what you guys think it might mean for Drupal....