Sams Teach Yourself Android™ Application Development in 24 Hours

Hour 16. Adding More Network Support

What You’ll Learn in This Hour

• Accessing device telephony information

• Using HTTP client services

• Performing HTTP GET requests

• Performing HTTP POST requests

• Adding third-party JAR files to your project

• Working with multipart MIME files

In this hour, you enhance the Been There, Done That! application to upload player data such as settings, scores, and avatars to the application server. You also learn how to access information about the device’s telephony status. Finally, you add some external libraries to an Android project and work with multipart MIME entities.

Determining Data to Send to the Server

So far, you have only downloaded data within the Been There, Done That! application. Now it’s ...