Is it possible for an android application to check and update itself from phpmyadmin server?
You can do this with php. Use PHP to make a connection with the database and get Data from phpmyadmin database. Then make a restful API with PHP to return you all fetch data.
Restful API helps to create, read, update or delete information between different applications over the internet or HTTP protocol.
Now through your android app call this API and update your app.
you can follow this for more information.
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Can an Android App connect directly to an online mysql database
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I have a website already setup which uses mysql database. I want to know how can i connect my app to that database.
What i wanna achieve is that my app should make a request to find a table of a defined "ID" or name. The table contains links to images or image names. I want the app to retrieve those images and display them on the android app.
What are the ways this can be done?
Can I use PHP to develop an android app?
Android does not support MySQL out of the box. The "normal" way to access your database would be to put a Restful server in front of it and use the HTTPS protocol to connect to the Restful front end.
Have a look at ContentProvider. It is normally used to access a local database (SQLite) but it can be used to get data from any data store.
I do recommend that you look at having a local copy of all/some of your websites data locally, that way your app will still work when the Android device hasn't got a connection. If you go down this route then a service can be used to keep the two databases in sync.
The one way is by using webservice, simply write a webservice method in PHP or any other language . And From your android app by using http client request and response , you can hit the web service method which will return whatever you want.
For PHP You can create a webservice like this. Assuming below we have a php file in the server. And the route of the file is yourdomain.com/api.php
if(isset($_GET['api_call'])){
switch($_GET['api_call']){
case 'userlogin':
//perform your userlogin task here
break;
}
}
Now you can use Volley or Retrofit to send a network request to the above PHP Script and then, actually the php script will handle the database operation.
In this case the PHP script is called a RESTful API.
You can learn all the operation at MySQL from this tutorial. Android MySQL Tutorial to Perform CRUD.
Yes you can connect your android app to your PHP to grab results from your database. Use a webservice to connect to your backend script via ASYNC task and http post requests. Check this link for more information Connecting to MySQL
Use android vollley, it is very fast and you can betterm manipulate requests.
Send post request using Volley and receive in PHP
Basically, you will create a map with key-value params for the php request(POST/GET), the php will do the desired processing and you will return the data as JSON(json_encode()). Then you can either parse the JSON as needed or use GSON from Google to let it do the parsing.
I am just a beginner in android app development and that's why I have many doubts. I am building one application where the user enters some data in editText. Now I want to save that data in my database. My database is running on my laptop. How would my app connect to the database? Do I need a web server in between? If yes then which web server is used for Android apps? Basically, i want to know the flow of data from app to the database.
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You may use a jdbc Connector to connect to database.
Connect your jdbc connector over local network ip\servername and database connection string
You can use REST Service when it comes to web Service on Android like this. You can either pass the values as parameters or an Object depending on your requirement. All the best
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I'm learning to build android apps using java & android studio.
For my app i need internet connection and a server side database, I'm already php developer so i tought to build a PHP web API and by json, send and recieve data from specific URL.
For example, any user that will register inside my app, i can send his data to:
(via POST or GET method.)
example.com/api/user_register.php
Is it secure? How can i get data and send to an existing domain in java?
I'm looking for something similliar to file_get_content() or CURL in PHP.
Also i need to build something like push notifications..
Creating an web API to access a MySQL Database for Android is expected as there is no direct connection to the database possible on Android.
I've done something similar with one of my own apps. How secure it is depends on how you make it and where your PHP API is. I.e. is the data being sent to/from HTTP or HTTPS. In my own app, I encrypt the post data on the device, post it to my PHP API which decrypts and processes the request.
It then builds a response and json_encodes it, which is then encrypted and sent back to the device, where the device decrypts it and processes the JSON result. All of this is also done over HTTPS so hopefully, its fairly secure.
Any tutorials out there on how to send and received data to and from a MySQL database hosted on a server using cPannel? I'm trying to make an android app that connects to the internet, and it needs to read and write data to and from the hosted database. The database is a MySQL one and is hosted on godaddy. I've been on the internet all day today looking, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Well you need to write a webservice which will get the data from your mysql database and send it to your android app.
First of all you need a server which you have already. Create space to write php scripts there to interact withe the database that is hosted there.
Second Write a php script on your server which can retrieve the required data from the MySQL database. Encode the retrieved data inside a JSON object and send it back to your app. From your app you have to call the URL where the webservice is hosted, and the php script will do the interaction with the database, retrieve the results and send it back to your app in JSON.
Third - Follow the same method to send and retrieve data to server. Create multiple webservice as per your requirements.
This tutorial excellently illustrates what you are looking for. This example uses a local server. You can skip some of the steps there. Hope it helps. URL: http://www.androidhive.info/2012/05/how-to-connect-android-with-php-mysql/
If you still got any questions, comment below. I will be happy to help.
Thanks!
I have an online store (like PC WORLD) and I want to create a Android app of this store, too.
The back-end of this online store is written by PHP & MySQL Database. So all of the data is stored in MySQL Database.
So what is the best way to retrieve information from remote MySQL server to my Android app?
Best regards,
Julius
Create a web service or some sort of API for your site.
Have you thought about using your current web site and just creating a web view app? In other words just creating a web browser window minus the address bar, and other controls? You could create one custom webpage then all you would be doing in the native app language is the browser window.
To retrive data from mysql the best way is create your web as android app or simply convert this web application to an android app by using www.web2apk.com.
This site will create an apk file of your web application. So you dont need to make any new database for android it will automatically retrive from same database.
You dont need to include any service for that.