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What's the server setup used for data communication between a mobile app (e.g. Android) and a server? Would an Apache http server with PHP be sufficient? Assume you need to transfer 1 GB of binary or text data once per day, or spread it out over small chunks and transfer at different times of the day. What about Tomcat + Java servlet?

All suggestions are welcome.

Brian Tompsett - 汤莱恩
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    Your going to move 1Gb of data per day? Have you any idea how much this is going to cost in data charges from a mobile? My own plan has an allowance of 1/2 a gig PER MONTH! Martin. – Martin Milan Feb 16 '10 at 22:30

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From the server side PHP/Apache should be fine, but is this all going to the same client?

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  • should it be standard http or socket based – user121196 Feb 18 '10 at 07:04
  • Ideally SOAP / HTTP (REST) based. Depends what you're doing - for instance for a project I am looking at I have had to write my own server program to simply monitor a network port and handle everything itself - but that was merely because this is the only way that the mobile device I was looking at would communicate with me... – Martin Milan Feb 19 '10 at 10:17