Logic Exception

Overview In this article, I will try to explain how to design an Android OAuth2 client that can interact with a Smyfony2 back-end implementation using Spring for Android and Spring Social. Before we start, I need to emphasize a couple of points. First of all, I am not an Android expert; I am still learning. Secondly, I like to leverage existing tools so I have chosen Spring Social for Android for this article. It satisfies my requirements for this tutorial but it may not be suitable for every case. Finally, I will not be explaining the server side implementation in this article. Read my previous FOSRestBundle and FOSOAuthServerBundle articles if you need starters. Raw Data Let's first look at the raw data that we will fetch from the server. Because I have been using the Conversation and Message examples for a while now, I will stick with the same pattern in this article. Let's say we would like to retrieve a list of conversations by a specific user from a REST endpoi...

Parcelable Interface Overview In one of my earlier posts, I mentioned writing an article about FOSOAuthBundle integration with an Android client. To keep that article to the point, I need to explain some concepts beforehand. One of the important concepts is the Android Parcelable interface that allows data to be transferred between different processes/threads. Certain network operations with Android such as authentication with OAuth2 and then fetching data from a REST endpoint should be performed in the background in order not to block the UI thread. This requires data to be fetched by a service (I have opted for Intent Services in my implementation) in the background and then passed back to the calling activity/fragment with a result callback. This is where the Parcelable interface comes into play. Basically, the Parcelable interface allows your classes to be flattened inside a message container called a Parcel to facilitate high performance inter process communication. The rece...