Android networking

Question

We are implementing a sever-client architecture and some of the client apps are supposed to run on android OS. The first idea that came to mind was to use java RMI, but the

Answer 1

RMI is a bad solution for anything not stuck on the same subnet. Its terrible at recovering from failures, and with roaming clients.

There are a ton of possible solutions, not limited to

• HTTP REST style, with XML or JSON data
• JSONRPC/XMLRPC
• SOAP (not the best for a performance standpoint)
• Protocol Buffers over sockets (TLS/SSL, please). Consider WebSockets.

Answer 2

If using a light weight JAVA/RMI Android implementation is feasible for your particular scenario you can take a look at the links below:

• https://github.com/jorgenpt/lipermi
• http://blog.pastelstudios.com/2012/10/11/poor-mans-rmi-android-java/