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I want to create an application in Android which communicates with a server application (written in C#, doesn’t matter what version of .NET) on the PC via TCP/IP.
What would be the best approach here?
I was thinking about some kind of RPC-like SOAP or XML-RPC. But I want to keep the server application as light and simple as possible. And I think in C# you rely on a Webserver to set up an RPC server. Is it better to communicate directly via the TcpListener?
I had pretty good luck using TCP/IP and UDP with android and windows (Java & C# respectively). I used a more brutal approach then the TCPListener for the C# but pretty similar at the high level. I would recommend giving it a shot and seeing the outcome, chances are it’s going to be fairly more lightweight in terms of processing and bandwidth then an XML approach.