Friday, March 30, 2012

Android Application to Send a File to Remote Server

This simple Android application sends a file to a remote server. In this example code server runs on local host. When the Send button is clicked the file is sent to the server.

Android Client Application
Server Application

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Simple Client-Server Application for Android


Note: Here is the updated tutorial of the following tutorial for the latest Android version:
http://lakjeewa.blogspot.com/2014/05/simple-android-client-server-application.html 

Following tutorial is based on Android 2.3 (API Level 10). It is not compatible with later versions since API Level 11 introduced AsyncTask implementation for network communication. Refer the above link instead for working solution. 

This application is a simple client-server application which has a Android mobile client and a Java server which is run on a machine. In this example, client is run on the Android emulator and the server is run on the local host. In Android 10.0.2.2 is the IP address for local host. This application allow to type a text message on a text field and when the Send button is press the message is sent to the server. Server continuously listen to the port. When there is a incoming message server read it and show it on the standard output.



Client Side Application



Server Side Application