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Sending and Receiving Data with Sockets
Read about sockets generally on the Oracle Sockets Tutorial
We need a way to send data to a computer from our android device. Easiest way is given the local ip address of the computer on the network to simply send data via a socket:
- http://android-er.blogspot.com/2011/01/simple-communication-using.html - Guide to sending data via a socket
- http://stackoverflow.com/a/20131985/313399 - stackoverflow snippet which connects to a host, and can send data to it via an asynctask
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6309201/sending-tcp-data-from-android-as-client-no-data-being-sent - stackoverflow snippet sending data to an ip address via a socket
- http://thinkandroid.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/incorporating-socket-programming-into-your-applications/ (client piece is phone, server piece needs to be on computer)
To send messages between an Android phone and a computer, the computer needs to be running a program that listens for messages sent on the socket coming from the phone:
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