Sending a local image from Android (Google Glass) to an online Python script?

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I've just started coding something for Google Glass. While I have experience with Java, I'm totally new to Android development as well as how server-type stuff works. I need to send a photo taken with Google Glass to a python script someone's hosting online and then retrieve an outputted JSON file from that script. On a computer, if you go to the URL of the python script with an image URL, it seems to work (http://blahblah.com/cgi-bin/blahblah.py?url=http://blahblah.com/blah.jpg gives back information from a JSON). How can I do this with Glass / Android? I tried using HttpURLConnection and POSTing the data but it couldn't establish a connection.

Thanks!!

What you tried seems right. Why could it not establish a connection? — User, Oct 30 '14 at 06:21
Yup, I did have the INTERNET permission added. Hmm mysterious... — choupettes, Oct 30 '14 at 17:09

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 01 '14 at 18:44

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It turns out my problem was that I was doing it all in my main Activity, while Android apps require that URLConnections be established in another thread. So I solved this by making a separate AsyncTask to handle the upload.

answered Nov 01 '14 at 18:44

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Sending a local image from Android (Google Glass) to an online Python script?

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