Android tablet and smartphone application

By admin | Published June 22, 2010
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Android applications ; connect with sql-databases

Android tablets and smartphones for mobility

This Android project is possibly one the first of its kind in the industry. Our client, a leading hotelier was on the looking for an easy to use mobile application for restaurant order management that would talk to their existing bespoke ERP suite built on an open source relational database, a middle tier application and a set of desktop client applications to manage operations such as housekeeping, inventory, kitchen order and front office. Being amongst the top eating places in the city, the restaurant had a regular clientele, who enjoyed the traditional cuisine being served.

The challenge was in building a thick client application on a the android tablet device that communicated with the legacy database, preparing kitchen order tickets and posting them to production. Since there were no ready to use SOAP components, our engineers used industry standard RPC communication frameworks to enable the android app talk to the middle tier – which in turn transacted with the SQL relational database.  The android applications' SQL Lite database was engaged to store basic configuration information and temporary order records. The user friendly GUI ensured that non technical end user managers were able to take orders and suggest the best combination of speciality dishes to the discerning client. The application is under beta release for client feedback with enhancements planned for the next schedule development sprint.
  • SqlLite
  • Remobjects remoting middle tier server on Windows 2008
  • Relational database
  • Tablet PC (Dell/ Samsung / Archos) or Smartphone running Android 1.67 or above

The middle tier framework is designed to support industry standard databases such as Oracle, Sql-sever, mySQL, pgSQL, FirbirdSql and DB2 express C

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