Thanks for the link, I actually came across this a few hours ago myself.  I've resorted to capturing traffic between the browser and a local installation of odoo in Fiddler to watch the communication.  Then it becomes a question of stripping the exchanges required for the GUI to get at the bare minimum to complete a high-level task.

I've noticed that the GUI in the browser makes use of JSON-RPC, rather than XML-RPC.  At least that is the case for creating a quote.  I captured the entire process and there was about 70 posts to the server to generate a single quote.  Now it is a matter of understanding what is GUI specific, such as generating quick lists, and what is really required.

So far, I haven't seen XML-RPC being used at all, so it may be better to focus on JSON-RPC.  At least there will be example working code.

I feel that the best way forward is to step through the process of creating a quote and note the corresponding JSON exchanges.  So, that will be any initialisation calls, setting the customer, adding the product, etc.  I also want to understand if we need to go through the entire sequence (similar to the GUI), or is there some final submission stage we can add data we've queried to and save it. 

I also noticed that the notification of a quote being created is not when the quote is saved, but when 'update' is clicked to generated the totals and sub-totals.  So, there may be a short-cut here.  As I explore or solve each high-level function I will update this thread.  Hopefully by the end we will finally have some proper documentation.

Hi Mark

Sadly there is VERY little information and details about this.
You can find examples of the Odoo apps here though: https://github.com/Odoo-mobile/

Sadly this code is so big and uses a lot of their own classes that its nearly impossible to understand.
For now there is no other documentation and neither are there any tutorials. I've been fighting with XML-RPC in Android for two days myself now, I haven't gotten further then connecting and getting a list of data. 
Do you want to do this on Android, Python, PHP, ??
There is one awesome guide about XML-RPC through PHP here: http://thierry-godin.developpez.com/openerp/openerp-xmlrpc-php-en/

Hope this helps you!

Mark,

From your comments about your use case, you may want to take a look at: http://odoo-connector.com/