We've come at long last to our final project. To close our time together here, we're going to build a very practical application, one that lets us send and receive SMS messages from the comfort of our desktop. There are a number of products on the market that let you do this now, but they typically require a third-party service, meaning your message travels through someone else's servers. For the privacy-minded, that can be a real problem. We'll build a system that is 100% local.
Building the app will cover several different topics, some familiar, some new. That list includes the following:
- Android applications
- Android services
- REST servers
- Server-sent events for event/data streaming
- Data access using Content Providers
There will also be a host of other, smaller tidbits along the way as we finish out our time together on a strong, high note.