[android-developers] TCP Socket communication between C# and Android

Hi Everyone,

I have a .net c# application acting as a server listening on a
particular port, and an Android app that I'm building acting as the
client which will connect and send / receive tcp messages to / from
the .net server application. I have it working at the moment but am
faced with a challenge that I'm hoping has a better solution than the
one I've implemented. My Android app connects to the .net server
fine, upon successfully connecting the .net application sends back a
tcp message - my Android app receives this message but it won't
continue code execution whilst it's reading the connected stream
unless I close the network stream in the .net server application.
Below is the bit of code which handles reading / writing to the
network stream:

out = new PrintWriter( new BufferedWriter( new
OutputStreamWriter(socketObj.getOutputStream())), true);
in = new BufferedReader( new
InputStreamReader( socketObj.getInputStream()));

out.printLn("my command");

String text = "";
String responseStr = "";

while ((text = in.readLine()) != null) {
responseStr += text;
}

So the while loop above continues to execute until I close the network
stream in the .net app. Is there some way of specifying to the
Android / Java network stream that the data being sent has ended so it
can break out that while loop and continue code execution apart from
closing down the network stream on the .net side?

Thanks for the help.

T

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