Discussion Android

[DeadMeatGF]

Has anyone successfully got a response from the API with Android - preferably using the Volley library - who would like to share enough code to get me connected, please?
I can sort of connect but it's complaining I have an invalid or incorrect Content-Length, or returning an error if I forcibly set the one it asks for!
I've got plenty of info to work with if I can at least get it to successfully connect and I do learn best by trial and error, but this has me stumped.

 

[Bam]

Don't know if this is will help or if you specifically want Android to talk to the compainion app api.

EDProxy by DuckRogers reads the logfiles and sends it to Android devices or other apps.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...xy-Remote-the-ED-netLog-to-multiple-listeners

I dont fully understand how the magic works but it does.

 

[DeadMeatGF]

Thanks Bam.
I've had a look, and that's useful for a lot of what I want, but I do want to try and get Android to talk to the companion api - I don't know if it (the api) does what I want it to, but I can only find out by connecting and seeing what data comes back!

 

[themroc]

You can always check the source of EDMC. It auths and uses the API to send stuff to EDDN

https://github.com/Marginal/EDMarketConnector

 

[Otis B.]

The Companion API was originally supplied exclusively for the iOS "Companion" app. So you need to fake up an iOS-like User-Agent string in order for it to give you useful info.

I'm not familiar with Volley, but I understand that you do this by overriding the getHeaders() method. See this example.

 

[DeadMeatGF]

That could be it - thanks. It's certainly what I was trying to do, but not the way I'd been shown how to do it so ... fingers crossed!