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Android Build a Simple Android App (2014) Getting Started with Android Setting Up an Android Development Environment for Windows

Posted by Mohamed Amine MOUNZIH
Mohamed Amine MOUNZIH
277 Points

Android and MySQL

need connecting the Android app with MySQL database on my online server

1 Answer

Ben Jakuben
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Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Jakuben
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher

You'll need to expose your db somehow as an API. Do you have that set up already? If so, the basic ideas are exactly the same as what we cover in the Build a Self-Destructing Message App. The backend is a black box that can be custom, Parse, or whatever. The app will connect and call methods pretty much the same way, though the details depend on how the API is set up, of course.