Hide android web service URL

Question

when I connect to my server I display it's address in the java code like that :

HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();

HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("http://192.168.1.13/spotnshare/syncAddress.php");

httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));
                HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);

But we told me that having the IP address in the code wasn't correct and that I should put it in a config file as an alias I guess.

Does anyone know about that ?

tephyr · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-02T16:13:46.260

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Add an element to the app's config file:

<resources>
  <string name="syncAddress">http://192.168.1.13/spotnshare/syncAddress.php</string>

Then set a static string to hold it, and read the config:

public static String SYNCADDRESS = getResources().getString(R.string.syncAddress);

Per Accessing Resources:

When your application is compiled, aapt generates the R class, which contains resource IDs for all the resources in your res/ directory. For each type of resource, there is an R subclass (for example, R.drawable for all drawable resources) and for each resource of that type, there is a static integer (for example, R.drawable.icon). This integer is the resource ID that you can use to retrieve your resource.

edited Aug 02 '12 at 16:13

answered Aug 01 '12 at 20:32

tephyr

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public static String SYNCADDRESS = R.string.syncAddress; type of R.string.syncAddress is int, it's doesn't to be work. – silentnuke Aug 01 '12 at 22:51
Good catch: I corrected the example code (the resource must be called with getResources().getString()). – tephyr Aug 02 '12 at 16:15

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 01 '12 at 19:41

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create a constant

public static final String URL_SYNCADRESS = "your url";

then use

HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(URL_SYNCADRESS);

answered Aug 01 '12 at 19:41

silentnuke

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just as placing in the resource. – silentnuke Aug 01 '12 at 22:49
nope. with it out of the code you can make separate builds using an alternate resource, send the code to someone who doesn't need to know your url, ... – Elias Dorneles Aug 01 '12 at 23:02
but it's need get context and then resources. – silentnuke Aug 01 '12 at 23:09

Hide android web service URL

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