Im working on an Android project that makes the users add torrent downloads to their uTorrent client (or other) remotely from tehir Android device.
I've had a look to the webUI API of uTorrent but this requires the users to specify their hostname or IP address and make a port redirection in their router.
I've seen that uTorrent provides a remote access on https://remote.utorrent.com that dosent require any of these operations (but activating the option in uTorrent settings)... but I can't find any API access related to this.
Has anyone know about any way to remotely add torrents to uTorrent or any other desktop bittorrent client remotely? It doesen't matter if I have to get a working server between the Android device and the bittorrent client (in PHP, JS, Java...)
Thank you by advance.
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After a lot of research i am more confused then before on what kind of server to use for an android app.
My question in a nutshell is: which kind of server is easier to use and deploy.
I want to create an android application that communicates with a server to find other clients, the server uses GCM to notify other clients that one client wants to communicate and is used to exchange the address of the clients. Afterwards the clients should be able to communicate directly to one another.
What i found out is that from the android point of view either would be fine, both is likewise possible and neither produces more work then the other.
On the server side it looks like web service would be better to use, because it is easier to find a server provider. I might be wrong here but it looks like most large server providers don't like to give you enough access to run a jar file.
Google and amazon offer servers that can host web services, i am not sure if a socket server would be possible there, so if anyone can give me some tips on good and affordable server providers i would also like to have some insight there.
I'm trying to create a TCP connection between my PC and Android smartphone to send text from the PC (Client) to the Android App (Server).
I found a tutorial which helped me with the code for the App which creates the server ( http://pastebin.com/z0xPSAvP ).
Now I'm struggling connecting my client with the server. The client is programmed with "AutoIt"
http://pastebin.com/tCW5bK9V
When I run the client the "could not connect to $socket" msg-box is displayed.
Could someone tell me what I'm doing wrong here?
Both devices are in the same Network (smartphone via WiFi and PC via LAN) and I checked for the smartphones IP in the smartphone settings.
First, try to access something like Google from your Android phone using its mobile browser. Maybe something still wrong with the network.
Then create a version of the server that could deliver simple HTTP response, visible from the Android mobile browser. Doing so with success eliminates firewalls and all client-related issues from the list of possible problems, making sure the server works and is accessible.
If it still does not work after you demonstrate connection between server and mobile browser, I would suggest to write the client in Java first using the this tutorial. You can try AutoIt and other more exotic approaches after you get anything working at all.
I want to have a Java-Application that is behind a firewall (maybe even connected over a 3G modem) and I have a google app-engine application.
How can the gae app push data to the clients?
I found some ways that look promising, but I'm not sure what will really work.
Sockets will not work, because I cannot connect through the firewall/3G barrier
the channel API only works with JS clients
XMPP looks very promising - the client would report it's presence and the server could push chat-messages to the client and also the client could reply that way.
But what about user-accounts? i.e. could I use a single XMPP-account for all users (and let the client send a unique ID to identify the user) - or is a unique XMPP account for every device (which runs the java-aplication behind the firewall) required?
are there any other options or are there some XMPP gotcha's you know about?
I have an IRC bot written entirely in Java that I've been hosting on my home computer, but my iffy internet connection has been disconnecting it a lot. I've been wondering if I could use the Google Apps Engine to host the bot with a constant connection? If so, what kind of changes am I going to have to make?
Thanks for the help
No, you cannot do that. Google App Engine does not allow arbitrary outgoing Socket connections (probably because they do not want people using their platform as a proxy server). The closest thing they offer is the URL Fetch API for accessing external content over the network/Internet.
Using that, you might be able to come up with something that drives an existing web-based IRC client using an App Engine app. Though I'm not sure what benefit that would have over just using a web-based IRC client directly.
Also you cannot have a "constant connection" to (or from) an App Engine app. The platform will automatically time-out/close any request that has not completed processing within about 30 seconds or so.
I would like to be able to control a USB device from a web application.
I was hoping to use Adobe Flex but I don't think that Flex can support access to USB devices.
Is this possible using Java applets, or a similar approach using .NET?
Thanks.
I don't think any web client platform will allow this. On purpose.
If you find one that does, I will uninstall from all my machines.
With .NET, you could
Create a WinForm control and host it in IE with an object tag. This requires security settings to be set using CASPOL or ActiveDirectory, but you would have full-trust to the machine after this
http://weblogs.asp.net/spano/archive/2007/09/19/hosting-a-windows-form-control-in-a-web-page.aspx
If there is already a COM object on the machine that does what you need, you can access it via Silverlight with elevated permissions.
http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/Silverlight-4-elevated-permissions.aspx
With Applets, you could do it with a trusted applet.
Using a lot of different technologies, you could create ActiveX objects, plugins or browser extensions to do it.
We successfully connected POS devices with a Flex UI... for this we created a bridge application with Merapi which connects Flex (either Air or Web) with Java, and left the connection with the devices to Java... this was for a controlled environment where we where sure that the client had the bridge configured...
Other option is to try Air 2.0 which allows to execute Native code (e.g. Java) to connect to the devices, and you could release your app in Air or develop a bridge this time in Air instead of Java to connect with the browser app
HTH
Gus
Your question is a little unclear because you did not say what computers the web application is running on, what computer the USB device is on, and what computer is yours.
Depending on the details, one possible solution would be to write a Chrome Packaged App and use Chrome USB API. The app would need to be installed on the computer that has the USB device and then it could present a UI to the user or just connect to a remote server and allow the device to be controlled remotely.