I’m a bit lost and I don’t know where to begin, but I would like to learn about local networking and how to list directories in shared locations from e.g. my home PC. Lets say I have a couple of documents on my PC that I need to access from my phone. These documents are located in a shared directory (other PCs can access these through the network explorer in windows).
How would I list/access these files through my android device?
I’m not looking for “ready to go” solutions but my searches return references to already existing software – which I’m not interested in. I want to build my own.
Any good articles or tutorials regarding this topic? What is required and what problems will I face?
Edit: I should also add that I have previous experience of developing android apps so I’m not starting from scratch – I just don’t have any knowledge of local networking.
Most apps that do this use jCIFS. I haven’t used it, but it should have some examples to get you started.