How to connect Android to a database server

Question

Is there any sample? I have my android application and I need to connect to mysql server on my machine, what is the best way?

I should not use jdbc, explanation here

Answer 1

I tried to connect DatabaseServer from an Android Application,initially i faced some issue while i was using jtds, jar package for database Driver Support, instead of using jtds jar file use mysql-Connector jar file for Database Driver Support. mysql-connector jar file "mysql-connector-java-5.1.24-bin.jar". put this jar file in projects libs folder.

a little bit code snippet :

`String url="jdbc:mysql://(IP-of databaseServer):3306/DBNAME";`
`String driver="org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver";`
`String username="XYZ";//user must have read-write permission to Database
`String password= "*********";`//user password

`try{
    Class.forName(driver).newInstance();//loading driver
    Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(url,username,password);
    /*once we get connection we can execute ths SQL command to Remote Database Server with the help mysql-connector driver over Internet*/

}`    
`catch(Exception e){
    e.printStackTrace();
}`

I hope it could work.

Cheers Rajesh P Yadav.