Question

when I connect to my server I display it’s address in the java code like that :

HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();

HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("http://192.168.1.13/spotnshare/syncAddress.php");

httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));
                HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);

But we told me that having the IP address in the code wasn’t correct and that I should put it in a config file as an alias I guess.

Does anyone know about that ?

Answer 1

Add an element to the app’s config file:

<resources>
  <string name="syncAddress">http://192.168.1.13/spotnshare/syncAddress.php</string>

Then set a static string to hold it, and read the config:

public static String SYNCADDRESS = getResources().getString(R.string.syncAddress);

Per Accessing Resources:

When your application is compiled, aapt generates the R class, which contains resource IDs for all the resources in your res/ directory. For each type of resource, there is an R subclass (for example, R.drawable for all drawable resources) and for each resource of that type, there is a static integer (for example, R.drawable.icon). This integer is the resource ID that you can use to retrieve your resource.