bject encoding schemes to get information transferred over the
network between services and mobile apps running on Android and BlackBerry. On Android, I figured I
would try using Java object serialization, and that works some of the time, and not for anything
complex. I wish the object serialization and deserialization mechanism in GWT would be ported over
to all these mobile environments, but I digress.</p>

<p>So I evaluated the following strategies:</p>

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  <li>
    <p>I tried using binary formats, t