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dabbling with android

I've been wanting to dabble with Android development recently,

and yesterday I realized that there is a Socket.IO client API available for Java/Android.

The API is pretty straightforward, so I loaded a test Android project I had made for going through Android basics and connected to the OpenSesame Node server.

and it works!

I mean, the interface is non-existent and it's really just bare-bones, but having the servo respond through an Android application was pretty refreshing.


(the web client and the android client "communicating" with each other--messaging is pretty much for debugging purposes)

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