REST Web Service usage in Android

I have got a tutorial on "Build RESTful web services with the Spring 3 MVC HttpMessageConverter feature" here : http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/wa-restful/index.html

But I am not sure if android supports this? If yes, how can i call these web services in my an开发者_JAVA百科droid application and use it??

Or do I have to go for JSON and Jesrey, JAVA - RX etc??

Any help??

Thanks,

Sneha

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I know of Android applications invoking web services - havent actually worked on such an app though. The actual payload can be JSON or XML - I am assuming you are building the client on the Android device and the server is hosted somewhere else. If this is the case, the API should not be much different from what you use on the desktop to access a web service.

Sravan.