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

Good idea about drive-mode, at least for the beta testing and initial
release. I don't actually have an Android phone (yet), so was unaware
of this feature. I'll take a look at what it takes to do that.

(Since I'm not really much of a cell phone person, I'm waiting for the
Android equivalent of the iPod Touch or iPad, with WiFi networking
only.)

On Jul 27, 4:19 pm, greg <sep...@eduneer.com> wrote:
> 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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