Consuming OData WCF REST Service from Android Client Device

As in my previous blog , already mentioned to create about OData Service feed in ATOM format which can be consumed in Windows Phone 7, Android, iPhone/iPAD , Silverlight,PHP, Windows Azure Table Storage clients.

• Lets check , how to consume the OData WCF REST service in Android client. To work with OData Android client lets download Odata4j Android client library from RESTlet: http://www.restlet.org/downloads/ & select the OData4j-Bundle.jar in Java Build Path of your Android project.
• Next, to consume OData service from android device, we need to host the service in IIS. In my demo, i have hosted it in IIS 7.5.
• Now, Start develop an android client application which can consume OData feed.

• Modify AndroidManifest.xml as it can consume feed from internet from native application:

<uses-permissionandroid:name=“android.permission.INTERNET”>

</uses-permission>

   Write code for  Activity.java :

package com.example.android.OData;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import java.util.List;

import org.odata4j.consumer.ODataConsumer;

import org.odata4j.core.OEntity;

import android.app.ListActivity;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;

public class JsonGrabbingConsumerExampleActivity  extends  ListActivity {

/** Called when the activity is first created. */

@Override

public void  onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

 super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,   android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, GetExpenseReports()));

        getListView().setTextFilterEnabled(true);

    }

// read expenses odata feed

    ArrayList<String> GetExpenseReports()

    {

// build a simple array list of strings to test things out

        ArrayList<String> listUI = new ArrayList<String>();

// use odata4j consumer

        ODataConsumer c = ODataConsumer.create(http://10.12.1.223/ODataSample1/Service.svc);

// run a query just for Pending states

        List<OEntity> listExpenses = c.getEntities(“SampleCustomerData”).execute().toList();

for(OEntity expense : listExpenses) {

    listUI.add(expense.getProperty(

“CustomerID”).getValue().toString()

    +

“; “ + expense.getProperty(“CustomerName”).getValue().toString()

    +

“; “ + expense.getProperty(“CustomerNotes”).getValue().toString()

    );

        }

return  listUI;   

    }

}

• Checkout the output in Android 2.3:

Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Gaming !!!

The Windows Azure toolkit for social games helps to build social games in Azure.  The platform enhances the future of gaming industry in cloud & also proving support for compute, storage , on demand content delivery & networking capabilities.  The future of Azure platform focuses on HTML5 with core support in out of browser enhancements.

Tankster

The Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games also comes with a new proof-of-concept game called Tankster from industry innovator Grant Skinner and his team atgskinner.com.

Tankster is built with HTML5 and comes complete with reusable server side code and documentation. It also supports a variety of social interactions including messaging, wall posts, and comments while player achievements and game stats are presented on a live leaderboard so gamers can interact with each other—what’s a social game without being able to talk trash?

Build games with Windows Azure & make it operate on Windows Phone. Enhance XNA gaming !!!

Download : http://watgames.codeplex.com/

 

Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8

The Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8 is released to make development easy for Windows Metro style application that can harness the power of Windows Azure Compute and Storage. The template is based on Windows Push Notification services existing with Windows Phone 7 applications.

Technologies:

• ASP.NET MVC 3
• Windows Azure SDK 1.4.1 Refresh
• Windows Metro style Javascript application project

The process of sending a notification requires few steps:

1. Request a channel. Utilize the WinRT API to request a Channel Uri from WNS. The Channel Uri will be the unique identifier you use to send notifications to an application instance.
2. Register the channel with your Windows Azure cloud services. Once you have your channel you can then store your channel and associate it with any application specific data (e.g user profiles and such) until your services decide that it’s time to send a notification to the given channel
3. Authenticate against WNS. To send notifications to your channel URI you are first required to Authenticate against WNS using OAuth2 to retrieve a token to be used for each subsequent notification that you push to WNS.
4. Push notification to channel recipient. Once you have your channel, notification payload and WNS access token you can then perform an HttpWebRequest to post your notification to WNS for delivery to your client.

To download & more :   http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2011/09/14/announcing-the-windows-azure-toolkit-for-windows-8.aspx

Download SDK:  http://watwindows8.codeplex.com/

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