Reputation: 199
I am trying to communicate between a web application and an Android device in the following way:
Log into my website with a unique id (eg. IMEI)
Send data from android to the web application the user has logged into
Send data from web browser to my application, e.g. with a simple html button
I know of the HttpUrlConnection class and other useful classes but I am unsure how to use them successfully. Let's say I just need to send GPS coordinates from my application to the user logged into my website, and then click a button in my website to send a message to my app.
I'm looking for some recommendations of various technology/methods I should use to help me achieve this!
Thanks!
Upvotes: 1
Views: 1866
Reputation: 16364
Use SQL Server to manage the data on your desktop and create a web-service in .NET on Visual Studio.
Then connect to the web-service in your application and set/get data from the DB, using web-services.
Links which might be useful :
How to make a web-service in .NET (does not include the implementation in Android) : http://srikanthtechnologies.com/blog/dotnet/wsdaljava.aspx
How to connect your service with Android :
http://seesharpgears.blogspot.in/2010/11/basic-ksoap-android-tutorial.html
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/304302/Calling-Asp-Net-Webservice-ASMX-From-an-Android-Ap
http://adrianandroid.blogspot.in/2012/05/access-c-net-web-service-in.html
Upvotes: 1