Android Question Google Places Custom Autocomplete View

[vfafou]

Hello!

The custom autocomplete view works like a charm!
Unfortunately, after the new policies of Google, their charges are not affordable anymore, so I changed all my mapping needs to a custom map server made by a company here in Greece. They have a very good API and one of the best Greek Map Databases with all features needed!
My problem is that I don't want to hit the server directly from the android devices using my app. The hits are done via my web-socket server, calling a server event from the devices and pushing to the devices the XML string that the map server responds.
The question is: How could I change the Custom Autocomplete View to do it waiting for the message pushed by the web-socket server?

Thank you in advance!

 

[Erel]

calling a server event from the devices and pushing to the devices the XML string that the map server responds.

What do you mean with pushing?

 

[vfafou]

Hello Erel!
Thank you for your response!
I’m using the custom push web socket framework for pushing messages to the devices. I haven’t implemented the sending objects to the devices with the B4X Serializator yet, so I send everything to the devices as messages.

 

[Erel]

Not sure that it is the best idea. Why not send a request, wait for the server to get the results and then let the server return the results in the response? This will work assuming that it doesn't take too long for the server to get the results.

 

[vfafou]

Theoretically it doesn’t take too long but I haven’t tested with heavy load to see if there is any bottleneck.
The B4J Websocket server runs an HTTP job requesting a response from the map server which communicates via a SOAP API.
Do you think that it’s better to make an HTTP server in the same B4J server to simulate the http job that the autocomplete view calls?

 

[Erel]

You can do the exact same thing with a regular http handler.

Example: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/creating-a-proxy.63292/#post-400026