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There are several ways to send data across the internet to a server on the Android. I was recently working on a project and needed to send a JSON string to the server to add data to a database. Additionally in certain cases I wanted to receive data back from the server. The fastest and easiest way to do this was to use HTTP POST android library and capture the response from the server using a response handler. On the server side the response was simply generated by echoing a JSON string.
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A week ago, for my mobile device programming class, I had to add text-to-speech and speech-to-text capabilities to a freely available Android program called Twitta. The features I added were very crudely superimposed on the Twitta interface, therefore this edit is by no means polished or intended for production usage.

There are 3 button “S”, “X”, and “R”. “S” starts the playback of all of the tweets which are currently displayed on the screen. Once the user scrolls down and new tweets appear on the screen the button can be pressed again and only the new ones will be read. “X” stops the playback of the messages. “R” prompts the user to speak their tweet. The google speech to text engine converts it to text and is displayed on the edit bar. If the message was wrong, pressing “R” again clears it and prompts for new speech. The message can also be edited with the keyboard. Below is a video of the application in action:

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