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Asked: 2026-05-22T18:08:07+00:00

I’m developing an android application which is to collect data and then send it

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I’m developing an android application which is to collect data and then send it to a web directory.

So lets say a want to collect an array of data on the phone, and then after clicking a button send it all to the online directory as a file or stream. It does not even need to get a response – although in the future a confirmation would be handy.

Here is a guess at the sort of order of things…

dir = "someurl.com/data/files_received";
Array data;
sendDataSomehow(dir, data); //obv the difficult bit!

I am in very early stages of developing for Android although I have a lot of experience coding web so that bit will be fine.

I have found suggestions for things such as JSON, Google GSON, HTTP POST and GET – do these sound like the right track?

I hope I have been clear enough.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Yep, JSON would be a good solution for this.

    Encode your array as JSON and then send it to your web server as the body of an HTTP POST request. If you have an hour to kill, here’s a really good video from Google IO last year explaining how to implement a REST client on Android (what you’re doing isn’t strictly REST-ful, but the calls you make to the server are very similer): http://www.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions/developing-RESTful-android-apps.html

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