My goal is to connect my Android app with Microsoft SQL server to run stored procedures and retrieve and update data.
I am a novice programmer and brand new to web services. I have run through a couple tutorials on building my own web services and could complete the tutorials but never got a good understanding on how to make my own web service that did what I wanted. I have a Dreamfactory Service created and can interact with my DB in the Live API.
I have the android sample app imported into Android studio but this is where I get completely lost. I cannot really make sense of the sample app. My simplified understanding of a web service you send a string to it and returns a JSON or XML result and it seems like there is ALOT more going on then this in the sample app. I successfully created some simple android apps that used a simple web service I created. After spending a couple days looking at this Dreamfactory solution I feel a lot more comfortable with continuing down the path of learning to create my own web service then I do with using Dreamfactory(which as of now is just adding another layer of complication to what I am trying to accomplish).
My Questions:
-Is dreamfactory the right tool for what I want to do?
-If yes, are there any other tutorials out there that are a little more dumbed down for me? (I would be willing to pay for a good tutorial)