Interfacing with Android app (and/or iPhone)

Hi all,

I have developed with CakePHP a "social network" website complete with
mobile version for mobile browsing. Users are authenticated with Auth
and also tracked with cookies if not authenticated.

Now I want to develop the related Android app (and later on the iPhone
one), but before starting I have in my mind a number of unresolved
(and probably not too clever...) questions, all related to the
possible best practices to interface a CakePHP server with mobile
app... For instance:

* I expect to exchange data via JSON (services already in place for
some JS and Flex features) but as the request is not coming from a
browser, how do I get info about the user / phone? Some info are
contained in the HTTP request? How do I parse them?

* Authentication: which the best (and reasonably secure) method to
send login and password (or new user registrations) to the Auth logic?

I would really appreciate any help or link to related topics.

Thank you in advance.

Best,

Mario

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