How to connect Android app to 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Can i use pHp to develop an android app  Yes   for web development you can use Phonegap   PHP   HTML etc  What are the ways this can be done   you can check couple of examples on the internet here is one of them  an easy way  Connect Android To MySQL

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