CODEWITHSUNDEEP
android
Slayer
Slayer

Reputation: 2491

Sending data from android app to remote publicy accessible machine

I'm planning to write up an android App that will collect some data from a smartphone and periodically send the data to some publicly accessible machine (i.e., the machine has a public IP address). What is the best approach to doing this? Is there any good sample code or skeleton available online?

At this point the communication is one way, i.e., from smartphone to external machine.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 219

Answers (1)

Jud
Jud

Reputation: 1188

HTTP is the ideal solution for an application like this. Run a web server on the external machine and POST data from the app to the server.

Info on how to do this from Android can be found here: How to send a data to a web server from Android.

As for the web server side of things, there are a ton of different solutions available. It all depends on your level of knowledge, what languages you're familiar with, and what you intend to do with the data once it arrives.

CGI is the classic web server tool for handling POST requests, but there are better techniques now. For example, the Java Servlet API if you like Java, WSGI if you like Python, PHP is a common server side language also.

Upvotes: 1

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