Storing Data on and accessing data from a website

Question

This is a total noob question. Sorry in advance if it is vague, but I'm looking for advice on how to start out. I have an app that I've developed that interacts with a local sqlite3 database. Everything works great, insofar as the data is local. Now, I want to move this data away from the local device and onto my website so that the app has to call out to that URL to get/set this data.

What topics should I be looking into? I need to understand how to 1) house this data on my website, and 2) modify my app to interact with it. Again, sorry if this is vague - just looking for topics to begin my search.

Thanks!

EDIT: I'm finding lots of resources out there that describe how to retrieve data FROM the site. What I am really spinning my wheels on is how to modify data stored on a site. This is back end data. No one will ever see it directly. JSON format sounds like the way to go, but I don't know where to look for ideas of how to update this data after a user initiates a change from the app. I need to update the data on the site, not just on the local database. Thanks again!

Answer 1

JSON JSON JSON! JSON is awesome, and is IMO the easiest way to communicate between the web and any other platform. You can look here and here for more info on the android side. Depending on what platform you are using for your website, there are many awesome libraries to help export your info to JSON. Happy Coding!

Answer 2

Check out the Volley library as it will simplify and speed up greatly your network communications (get it here).

You probably want to use JSON to retrieve and send data to your web-service as it is very light and compact.

An example using Volley and JSON