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SyncML with Android and PHP Web Service

I was just wondering if anyone was using SyncML (Synchronization Markup Language) , and if this is a good standard to use.

We will need to synchronize information from the tablet device on the web server (via the web service) and vice versa.

Is SyncML Too Bloated? I looked at some of the SyncML APIs and was quite complicated. Therefore, a large choice is to use this standard or build your own solution.

Even if I did this from my own experience, we would need to create a way to determine the data that we send, so we definitely look at creating an XML schema or, alternatively, JSON.

Any opinions? Ideas?

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SyncML and ActiveSync (and possibly some other prepared solution) have a significant advantage: there are some implementations that are probably stable. Another significant advantage is that the protocols are designed and tested. If you are developing your own protocol, you will have to think about all the possible situations in synchronization. That way, even if your own protocol may be a little simpler, you will probably have to work harder and the result may be less stable.

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You can create syncml server in php through PHPSyncMl .

In addition, the syncml client can reference Android itself . By the way, this code may be lost in the version after.

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