how to send data from php to android not using json - php

Question

i using httpPost method to send data from android to php.
Now i am want to send data from php to android ?
i need the simple and flexible method like: httpPost, but there from php to android
not from android to php
how it ?

Answer 1

Your PHP can just print whatever you want. It can be as simple as
<?php
print("This is my return value");
JSON is a common format, but it can be anything. Below is an complete java example of reading the PHP script's value.
try {
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httppost = null;
httppost = new HttpPost("www.myURL.com");
httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs, "UTF-8"));
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
is = entity.getContent();
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.e("log_tag", "Error in http connection" + e.toString());
}
try {
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is, "UTF-8"), 8);
sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.append(reader.readLine() + "\n");
String line = "0";
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line + "\n");
}
sb.deleteCharAt(sb.length() - 1);
is.close();
result = sb.toString();
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.e("log_tag", "Error converting result " + e.toString());
}