Android desktop synchronization client

With this project, we'll change gears a little bit and focus specifically on a different part of the Java ecosystem: Android. To do this, we'll focus on a problem that still plagues some Android users--the synchronization of an Android device and a desktop (or laptop) system. While various cloud providers are pushing us to store more and more in the cloud and streaming that to devices, some people still prefer to store, for example, photos and music directly on the device for a variety of reasons, ranging from cost for cloud resources to unreliable wireless connectivity and privacy concerns.

In this chapter, we'll build a system that will allow users to synchronize music and photos between their devices and their desktop or laptop. We'll build an Android application that provides the user interface to configure and monitor synchronization from the mobile device side as well as the Android Service that will perform the synchronization in the background, if desired. We will also build the related components on the desktop--a graphical application to configure and monitor the process from the desktop as well as a background process to handle the synchronization from the desktop side.

This project will cover the following:

• Android
• User interfaces
• Services
• JavaFX
• REST