what is the best practice to send data to client android application using web-server or Google cloud management or web services . i want to send SVGfile to android client application from my pc or my server.
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2This question is subjective. The question might get closed. – Chathuranga Chandrasekara Jul 16 '13 at 12:47
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Instead of sending data to the client (which assumes your client becomes a server somehow listening to that kind of data) I would just trigger an event on the client which will then download the data from the server.
So let's assume these two options:
- your client queries your webserver every X minutes to see if there is something (new) to download
- you receive a push message via Google cloud 2 device message system
Both will then trigger a download routine. Here is an example how to download an image via URL How to load an ImageView by URL in Android?

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To send data in this direction (from PC to Android), you need Google Cloud Messaging:
http://developer.android.com/google/gcm/index.html
because the app in client may be "sleeping"

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