It shows how much I have to learn :) Thanks for setting me straight. I think my comments regarding the ADC still stand though. Warning: more ill informed follows.
I always had the impression that mobile phones and their like would use gateways (yes proxies I guess) that would be determined and controlled by the operator, but (naively I'm sure) thought that this would be baked into the network stack below the application level. I can imagine ways in which my simplistic thinking might break down for J2ME, but with a unified stack like Android, surely requiring every application to address proxying individually is silly. Tom. On Apr 10, 5:30 pm, Stefan Handschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Proxies are the STANDARD-way for you mobile device to connect to the > internet. I have never owned a device that doesn't use a proxy server. > > But: Android makes no devision into HTTP and HTTPS which is a huge > disadvantage > > > I'm becoming confused with all of the guidance being given to entrants > > of the ADC. > > > One the one hand, the flavour of the posts in the Challenge group is > > that we are not permitted to instruct the user to do anything to their > > emulator. This seems to include pushing files to it, installing an > > supplied SD Card image or even installing more than one application > > package. > > > But unless I have been totally left behind (and its quite possible), > > this is just what you need to do to Android's own browser to use a > > proxy: > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_frm/thread/e... > > > Further to this, there is even no way to make the built-in Google Maps > > application to work: > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_frm/thread/b... > > > Perhaps I'm mistaken in this, I don't have much experience with mobile > > phone development, but isn't a proxy configuration something of an > > abnormality for a mobile device? > > > Tom. > > > On Apr 9, 10:43 pm, "David McLaughlin (Android Advocate)" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes; just as your end-user may end up using your app from behind a > > > proxy, you should assume that your judges may also. > > > > Thanks, > > > David > > > > On Apr 8, 8:54 am, joos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > I am building a client/server application for the Developer Challenge > > > > where my Android Client accesses some Server to retrieve information. > > > > > Does anyone know if I have to take care handling Internet access > > > > through a firewall/proxy within my application? > > > > (I would have to read the proxy values from the settings.db and add > > > > the values to my openConnection call - I guess) > > > > > Greetings, > > > > Joos --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcing the new M5 SDK! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/02/android-sdk-m5-rc14-now-available.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
