Are there any applications that offer protocol protocol APIs?

Question

I recently stumbled upon Google Protocol Buffers as a Kickstarter project, which I am following, Lifx, plans to release an SDK using protocol buffers as an interface. I'm just wondering if anyone knows about existing applications or services that offer protocol protocol APIs? I just want to play a little with him.

Answer 1

Protocol buffers are, first of all, a mechanism for serializing your program data in binary format (for storage or transmission over the network) and vice versa - regardless of the programming language. i.e. you can serialize a complex binary data structure in a python application and read it back into an android application and get the same data in the android application programming language. Protocol buffers do not help you transfer or send data from one place to another - for this you need a different mechanism (TCP / IP, sockets, HTTP). However, protocol buffers provide an API for making RPC calls from a client to a remote server, but do not provide any implementation. There are some third-party implementations of this RPC api that can be used with any java application - see https://code.google.com/p/protobuf-rpc-pro/ - which can work on android.