How to call a SOAP web service on Android

SOAP is an ill-suited technology for use on Android (or mobile devices in general) because of the processing/parsing overhead that's required. A REST services is a lighter weight solution and that's what I would suggest. Android comes with a SAX parser, and it's fairly trivial to use. If you are absolutely required to handle/parse SOAP on a mobile device then I feel sorry for you, the best advice I can offer is just not to use SOAP.

I think Call SOAP Web Service from Android application will help you a lot.

I would suggest checking out a very useful tool that helped me a lot. The guys who take care of that project were very helpful, too. www.wsdl2code.com/

This is a working example of consuming SOAP web services in android.

**Note ::***DON'T FORGET TO ADD ksoap2.jar in your project and also add the INTERNET permission in AndroidManifest file*

public final String WSDL_TARGET_NAMESPACE = "http://tempuri.org/";
public final String METHOD_NAME = "FahrenheitToCelsius";
public final String PROPERTY_NAME = "Fahrenheit";
public final String SOAP_ACTION = "http://tempuri.org/FahrenheitToCelsius";
public final String SOAP_ADDRESS = "http://www.w3schools.com/webservices/tempconvert.asmx";


private class TestAsynk extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String> {

    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(String result) {

        super.onPostExecute(result);
        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),
                String.format("%.2f", Float.parseFloat(result)),
                Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }

    @Override
    protected String doInBackground(String... params) {
        SoapObject request = new SoapObject(WSDL_TARGET_NAMESPACE,
                METHOD_NAME);
        request.addProperty(PROPERTY_NAME, params[0]);

        SoapSerializationEnvelope envelope = new SoapSerializationEnvelope(
                SoapEnvelope.VER11);
        envelope.dotNet = true;

        envelope.setOutputSoapObject(request);

        HttpTransportSE androidHttpTransport = new HttpTransportSE(
                SOAP_ADDRESS);
        Object response = null;
        try {

            androidHttpTransport.call(SOAP_ACTION, envelope);
            response = envelope.getResponse();
            Log.e("Object response", response.toString());

        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return response.toString();
    }
}