Development Task Flow Using OData SDK (Messaging Channel)

After you import mobile applications and associated libraries into the Android development environment, use the Android API references to customize your device applications. For an application to work in an ODP scenario, it needs to be initialized first. Additionally, an application developer uses APIs specific to ODP that enables the application to send and receive data.

This section provides a development task flow for creating Android applications that work in the ODP scenario.

1. Initializing the Application
   Initialize the application when it starts the first time.
2. Setting Server Details
   Set or update the connection properties of the server before or after user registration.
3. Registering a User
   Using a predefined authentication mechanism, register a user automatically.You can register the user either synchronously or asynchronously.
4. Sending Data Request to the Back-end
   
5. Retrieving the Response from the Back-end
   Based on the data request sent to the back-end, you need to retrieve the data as a response to the device.
6. Using HTTPS over the Sybase Unwired PlatformMessaging Channel
   (Optional) Clients can securely communicate with the backend via the server through the HTTPS transport protocol. By using SSL over the Sybase Unwired Platform Messaging Channel, all messages are encrypted and authenticated to ensure secure communication.
7. Debugging Runtime Error and Performance Analysis
   To handle occurrences of exceptions and special conditions that change the normal flow of the program execution, error handling has to be done appropriately.