Android app for writing to a FreeBSD database on the Internet

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balanga

I have often thought about recording and storing travel data on my own database but don't know how to go about it.

I would like to enter things via my phone such as date and time, mileage etc, geolocation and then send it to my database on a remote server.

It's probably simple enough if you know what you are doing but I don't.

Has anyone every written an android app which simply sends a 'Hello, world.' and datestamp to my server which records it?
 
balanga said:
I have often thought about recording and storing travel data on my own database but don't know how to go about it.
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I can log-in my wiki anywhere and do quick notes on my phone from Firefox :D

I can think-up a questionable set-up with SSH, Termux on Android, and touch'ing a file (or direct-DB edit through mysql/mariadb command)
 
balanga said:
I have often thought about recording and storing travel data on my own database but don't know how to go about it.

I would like to enter things via my phone such as date and time, mileage etc, geolocation and then send it to my database on a remote server.
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With KDE Connect you can share URLs and text to another computer. For FreeBSD you need a desktop and deskutils/kdeconnect-kde. On receiving URLs kdeconnect uses the URL handler, so register a script of your's.

KDE Connect only works in the same network, so from the internet you'd need a vpn.
 
Since Google is gonna be locking down android at the end of this year I have abandoned any development on that platform. For stuff I want to do over the phone within my local network I use apache/cgi stuff on my server, usually with backend python scripts.
 
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