[android-developers] Re: Transfer database file to Android

Have you considered giving your users instructions on how to put their
Android phone in USB drive mode and writing a little PC application to
update/backup your application's data files on the SD card? This
might be a setup that the old time Palm users (such as myself :*) are
comfortable with.

On Jul 27, 7:04 am, Doug Gordon <gordo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually not that large by today's standards -- just in the low
> megabytes (<10 Mb I'd guess). The reason for the uncertainty is that
> it entirely depends on how much data the user has in their original
> database, which can vary widely.
>
> I can understand the web server solution, and of course I already have
> my own business web server, but I was hoping to avoid having to build
> my own web-based solution. Such a solution would have to include user-
> specific login protection (name/password, etc.) since these files can
> contain private information and I'd have to make sure that the files
> would be fairly secure from unauthorized downloads and other hacking
> attempts. But I've done plenty of PHP scripting before...
>
> On Jul 26, 7:46 pm, greg <sep...@eduneer.com> wrote:
>
> > Before you jump to the offered solutions, it might be helpful to
> >momentarilyback up and define what you mean by "rather large".  For
> > example, are your data files 1 GBcompressed?

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