[mythtv-users] Subject: Re: MythTV Frontend for Android released on Market

[Tom Lichti]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 1:26 PM,  <kenkyee at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm using 0.25 so I can't test this :-P
> Just wondering if anyone knows why the protocol requires connection to the
> MySQL server?  I.e., why didn't they just implement it like a web service
> API and abstract everything so it goes only through a new MythTV port?
> Seems like the "API" is the same one used by frontends talking to backends,
> which doesn't seem like a great thing to do for 3rd party APIs...
>

The new web services API in 0.25 (when it's released) will do just
that. The developer of the app developed against .23 and .24 which
does not have the WS API.

Tom