This is a basic KSOAP Android tutorial - here I will show you how to get started with KSOAP on Android. As you may know, we often want to access Web services via hand-held devices, and most likely you will run into trouble parsing the WSDL and the SOAP messages. Since I come from a .NET background, once I started developing on Android, I realized how much work has been Visual Studio doing for me.
That thought took me to search for a framework or library to help me consume Web Services with Android. I ran into KSOAP2, which seemed like a good library, but unfortunately, very badly documented for most scenarios, like passing or returning complex objects, working with arrays of objects or even working with dates.
All of this I needed to find out by myself and this is why I decided to write this tutorial. So, let's begin.
Getting Started with KSOAP on Android
First things first, so you should now go ahead and download the KSOAP library from
http://code.google.com/p/ksoap2-android/downloads/detail?name=ksoap2-android-assembly-2.4-jar-with-dependencies.jar&can=2&q=
Then copy and paste the KSOAP library in the folder where your Android project will reside. Open Eclipse, start a new Android Project, right-click on the project's name and choose Properties, like this:
The next thing you need to do is to Add the KSOAP .JAR into the Android Project:
