Useful Mono Droid Snippets.

Nowdays, everybody loves JSON.  Truth is.. I feel it is much easier to use in some regards for Web, and Mobile projects than XML, but there is something to be said for both data formats.

This is a snippet for retrieving any web response in JSON, via Rest Sharp in a Mono Droid, or Mono Touch environment, that you can then parse with your JSON Deserializer (Whatever flavor you prefer, hopefully one that supports AsParallel()).

This isn't the code I am using anymore.  As the first security layer is in place.  Below I have a post semi-related to the 2nd security layer, which is semi in-progress.. involving X509 certificates.

I also have made a model for a web service that will provide all User Application management functions for all mobile applications that I'll be developing.  I prefer the cloud.  It's cheap, I don't need anyone other than myself.  (Even though I'm a pretty decent sys admin).

        private static RestClient CutDownBloat()
        {
            var client = new RestClient();
            client.AddHandler("application/json; charset=utf-8",new RestSharp.Deserializers.JsonDeserializer());
            return client;
        }
        private static RestResponse<Object> CutDownCode(string url)
        {
            var request = new RestRequest();
            request.Method = Method.GET;
            request.Resource = url;
            var client = CutDownBloat();
            RestResponse<Object> response = (RestResponse<Object>)client.Execute<Object>(request);
            return response;
        }

In order to make a true secure system for a mobile application, you need a unique ID for the device attempting to access your services.

Just getting a unique device ID is a key component.


This is a snippet that will return a Unique Device ID for Android devices.

public static class DeviceData
    {
        public static string getDeviceID(Context context)
        {
            TelephonyManager tm = (TelephonyManager) context.GetSystemService(Context.TelephonyService);
            return tm.DeviceId;
        }
    }