Following on from my last post about RESTful services, I’ve recently gotten an Android phone (HTC Desire) and have downloaded the Android SDK to have a little play around with it. I’ve managed a simple “Hello World” app, but nothing more yet. I have another subject in college that deals with mobile computing where, as part of our grade, we have to develop a smartphone app.

As it stands, to test the project, there will be a need to commandeer either a college computer, or bring in my own laptop to demo the server backend, but ideally I’d like to combine both the year long project and this other mini-project and create a server on an Android phone, which is capable of running a RESTful service and spitting out XML to be consumed by the iPhone, or indeed any client running on the network that is capable of displaying Google Map data.

So, this would be handy for 2 reasons:

  1. I always have my Android phone on me.
  2. I wont need to bring my laptop to college.

If this is possible, it would really look good on my CV, and would probably be something that would get a lot of downloads on the Android Market….which would nicely pad out my CV more, and kick start my portfolio, which at the moment is depressingly empty!! 🙁

However, if its not possibly, or feasibly for someone with basic knowledge, such as myself, then I suspect a little game of SNAP on the Android might be “on the cards…”!