As you know, at this time Magento is one of the best open-source ecommerce platforms in the world. However, most of Magento stores have a lot of products, catalogs, orders and payment data to manage. These data can be accessed by API.
Magento offers two API’s to develop your app in Android: REST and SOAP APIs. Unfortunately REST API has limited access to this data and allows only download some of it. If full CRUD actions are needed it’s necessary to use SOAP API with XML format. That’s the day when you have to leave your comfort zone of REST & JSON and enter unfriendly waters. Thus, I will talk a little about SOAP API.
Magento has 2 version of SOAP API:
- With Magento SOAP v1 API, you will have the ability to manage your stores by providing calls for working with resources such as customers, categories, products, and sales orders. Besides, this Magento API also helps you to manage shopping carts and inventory. To connect to Magento v1 SOAP web services, load the WSDL into your SOAP client from either of these URLs:
http://magentohost/api/?wsdl
http://magentohost/api/soap/?wsdl
- Since Magento 1.3, Magento SOAP API version has been releasing and a WS-I compliant version has been available since Magento 1.6. You can use
Now, most of Magento developers use Magento v2 SOAP to improve compatibility with Java and .NET.
To learn more about Magento SOAP API for Android, you can learn at: http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/m1x/api/soap/introduction.html
To learn more knowledge about Magento Mobile App, you can vist our tutorials: https://simicart.com/blog/category/magento-tutorials/
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