Using phpMyFAQ Search Engine from my Android mobile device..

[jhansen]

Hi, I want to query the phpMyFAQ Search Engine for my FAQ from my Android mobile phone
(for an App I'm writing). I'd rather query the DB from the phone, get the results,
and format locally for mobile display. I don't want to just redirect the user to the
phpMyFAQ web site because the mobile web browser on the device can be slow and
memory intensive.

Can you recommend a "web-service" like way (e.g. xml or json) to query the DB
and return that information? Or, should I try to do a MySQL DB query? Thanks.

jhansen

[Thorsten]

Hi,

we're already working on an Android app for phpMyFAQ: http://blog.experimentalworks.net/2009/09/ask-a-droid/

On the server side we are currently working on an API for mobile devices. This will be included in phpMyFAQ 2.6 and we're using a rest/json API.

bye
Thorsten