Django Tastypie with android client

I've been using django-tastypie recently to create restful apis and i wanted to use it especially with an android client. I've put together a sample application, django rest backend and an android client to demonstrate this. So here is a quick walk through of the code. Here is the models.py which describes a recipe. 

from django.db import models

class Recipe(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
    content = models.TextField()

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.name
We set up a Resource for our API using tastypie. 

from tastypie.resources import ModelResource
from recipes.models import Recipe

class RecipeResource(ModelResource):
    class Meta:
 queryset = Recipe.objects.all()
        resource_name = 'recipes'
 allowed_methods = ['get']
        include_resource_uri = False

    def alter_list_data_to_serialize(self, request, data_dict):
        if isinstance(data_dict, dict):
            if 'meta' in data_dict:
                #Get rid of the meta object                                                                               
                del(data_dict['meta'])

        return data_dict
Now we set up the urlpattern to access the data 

from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns, include, url
from recipes.api.api import RecipeResource
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()

recipe_resource = RecipeResource()

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^api/', include(recipe_resource.urls)),
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)

Test the api using curl. 

$ curl -H 'Accept: application/json' http://localhost:8000/api/recipes/
Now that the api works as expected the next part is to create an android app client to consume the api. This will be a simple app for viewing recipes.Later we will add the ability to add recipes to our recipe database from the android client. This will be covered in part 2 of this tutorial.
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