Hi everyone,

Just completed my first android application (basically a hello world with a dialog). Now i'm looking to move on to something more interesting. I'm trying to get some data from a webservice and display the results in a list.

My webservice would be like http://localhost/webservices/SearchService.asmx, my method name is SearchStaff and the parameter is called searchText.

Can anyone tell me where would i begin.

android doesn't support http://localhost/ requests (it's an emulation) ... so if you want to connect with your webservice you'll need another host (the ip of your computer will do it for the beginning).

write an xml-parser for the soap-document and handle all the different cases OR just download the ksoap2 package for android (http://www.tuxpan.com/android-soap/andr ... -build.zip - powered by http://groups.google.com/group/android- ... 9309d7b10f). but be aware - there have been some bigger changes for http-connections in last android versions, so you may have to write your own http-connection class for the ksoap2 package.

then just invoke your webservice and use it

Thanks for the link, exactly what i was lookiing for. Now i just need to make it work!!