Connect android application to asp.net mvc back-end

Question

I am currently working on an mvc project designed to store points for students at certain sporting events, we use the context class to create the code for the database tables first in the existing database, writing and reading in mvc fully works, we have a certain actionresult result, which returns a list of the results that the student received while working with the student.

For this project, we also create an Android application in which a student can log in and view a list of his results (which returns the result of actionresult in mvc)

Our database also has tables that work with a simple mvc4 membership provider.

I was wondering what was the best way to connect our Android application to our mvc project to access actionresult which returns a list.

I read about the asp.net services project, which could act as a link between our mc project and our Android project, but I was wondering if there is an easier way to do this.

I was also wondering if I was able to log in using the credentials from a simple mvc4 membership provider in our Android app.

Answer 1

The best way I can imagine is with the ASP.NET Web API, since your front-end application will have a user interface for calling Android from JSON from the Web Api controller. You can also place this application separately and call from android, MVC or any other external application that reuses code.