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3 points by lacero ↗ HN
I'm looking for guidance from the community on building the backend for an android app. Do you know of any thorough books/tutorials that include code examples of how to build a Web Service that would be used as the back-end of an Android app? I would be particularly interested code advice about security and crud functionality.

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throw471474
You have a few options.

1. Phonegap.

2. UIWebView for iOS and android.webkit.WebView for Android.

3. Sencha. etc...

It shouldn't take that long to do this.

lacero
I have a website built with ruby on rails which I was hoping could be converted to a webservice. I would really like to use Ruby on Rails so that the website can be used as an html front end and webserive simultaneously (if this is good practice).

I'll take a look a phonegap. That name seems to be popping up a lot in google searches.