Uploading data from Android App to desktop program

Question

I'm pretty new to android so apologies if I'm missing an obvious solution, I'm developing an android app that would be used to record various data including photographs and hopefully the intention would be for this collected data to be uploaded to a desktop application where certain desktop specific jobs could be carried out.

Due to the fact I intend to save photographs within the app in the SQLite database as a bytearray which recorded information would be I think that it would be too data intensive to send to a server, plus I wouldn't want the desktop app to necessarily be on a server, it should be standalone. I'd prefer to use the USB connection and allow a USB upload of the data from the app sqlite db direct to the database on the pc, probably sql server. What would be the best way to approach this? Could the android ADB be used to acheive this?

Any help or suggestions on this would be much appreciated.

Regards

Answer 1

I believe that your sqllite database (as well as photos contained there) will be stored on the SD card of the device. You have to options here, first, when your desktop applications find the folder on the device SD card (should be mounted on the filesystem after connecting the device to your PC), second is to use bluetooth and initialize the transfer from the device to your desktop application.