if the ammount of data you wanna send is small enough to consider using SMS as your medium you should just use App Engine or Heroku and it's gonna be free. If you use more than the free limits of Heroku and/or App Engine that means you really don't wanna do it through SMS for the sake of your users (not everybody has a unlimited messages plan)
(Encapsulating TCP/IP network traffic in SMSes reminds me of when I was 15, doing "data transfer" by running with a bunch of floppies from my house to my friend's. whenever I had a corrupt packet - broken floppy - I'd have to go back home and rebuild them) 2011/11/7 Belvedere Computer Services <fa829...@gmail.com> > > .....What should I do? > why is binary needed ? > > there are ( obviously ) out of the box that are something that works > but SMS is and only is a shallow layer for niftiy text exchange > > reason to be sent in binary .... ? > > there will be something to do that already working > On Nov 6, 4:22 pm, John Goche <johngoch...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Kristopher Micinski > > > > <krismicin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> I need to have a bunch of android phones send and receive data to each > > >> other to communicate, > > > > > Don't use SMS, that seems like a bad idea waiting to happen. Try > > > using a web service or backend to do this, this is what pretty much > > > everyone else does.. > > > > > kris > > > > Yes but a web service / backend needs a separate server and I wanted to > have > > something that works out of the box. What should I do? > > > > Regards, > > > > John Goche > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- 株式会社アルゴ ARGO Inc. 〒130-0012 東京都墨田区太平3-11-10 NTKオオノビル8階 ソアレス フランシスコ ( Soares Francisco ) Mail : soa...@argo.bz HP : http://www.argo.bz/ TEL：03-5619-4511 FAX：03-5619-4512 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
