I'm trying to find a way to cache images and strings from mysql to sqlite so that my android application can access locally? I think I can use php and json to do the job but I'm unsure how I would use json to parse images. Has anyone done anything like this before?
Since both XML and JSON are textual, you will have to encode/decode the pictures. The base64 encoding available from Apache Commons Codec (http://commons.apache.org/codec/) can help. If the Dalvick converter doesn't like all of Commons Codec, you can try to extract only the parts you need. If that doesn't work, encoding algorithms aren't that hard to write from scratch.
I went a different route. I'm storing images to a server and using httpget to get image from url. Then inserting the image to sqlite. As far as strings and integers, I'll still use php and json to do the job. Is this a good plan?
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