Mobile Web Services

Moodle comes with a built-in web service designed for mobile applications. It is required to run the official Mobile app. Enable it only if you want people to use the official app or if a third party app explicitly requires it.

Enabling mobile web services

A site administrator first must enable mobile web services:

In Administration > Site administration > Plugins > Web services > Mobile Check “Enable mobile web services” and then Click Save.

What happens when the service is enabled

Enabling the mobile web services will automatically:

• enable the web services system (Administration > Site administration > Advanced features)
• enable the built-in external service called ‘Mobile web services’ - you should see this new mobile service listed as enabled
• enable the xml-rpc protocol (for backward compatibility with unmaintained My Moodle app)
• enable the rest protocol
• allow the ‘webservice/xmlrpc:use’ capability for authenticated user role
• allow the ‘webservice/rest:use’ capability for authenticated user role

Disabling mobile web services

When you uncheck ‘Enable mobile web services’, it will automatically:

• disable the external service called ‘Mobile web services’.

• if ‘Mobile web services’ was the only external service enabled:

  • disable the web services system
  • disable the xml-rpc protocol
  • disable the rest protocol
  • remove the ‘webservice/xmlrpc:use’ capability for authenticated user role
  • remove the ‘webservice/rest:use’ capability for authenticated user role

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