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I am working on a communication between android and arduino board.

The android make a TCP connection with the board and successfully send some string to the board.

The problem is , there is a int in my arduino code (eg. int distance) and I would like to pass that back to my android device

I have handle the android side already , but I do not know how to return a message from arduino

in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream()));

                //in this while the client listens for the messages sent by the server
                while (mRun) {
                    serverMessage = in.readLine();

                    if (serverMessage != null && mMessageListener != null) {
                        //call the method messageReceived from MyActivity class
                        mMessageListener.messageReceived(serverMessage);
                    }
                    serverMessage = null;

                }

This is the android side code but I think that it is not a specific android problem, there should be some way for arduino to make a response of a integer variable (without concern what is the source device)?

What I should do in ardino for making that response? Thanks for help.

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is serial.println(distance); correct? thanks – user782104 Mar 4 '15 at 18:14
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The binary representation of integers varies between Arduino (16 bit) and Android (32) bit, and while both an Arduino and most native-level Android implementations are little-endian, Android java code is big-endian. So transferring your values in a string format may ease compatibility, as well as making it easy to debug the system by substituting a terminal emulator. – Chris Stratton Mar 5 '15 at 15:16
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I'm assuming that you are using an Ethernet shield, as nothing about this is stated. But solution is really similar between many network solution.

Once a TCP connection has been established, it can be used like you would use the Serial;

you'll probably end up having something similar to:

EthernetClient client = server.available(); //accept a new connection
if (client) { //if valid connection
  client.print(distanceValue);
  client.close(); //close connection
}

look at the official API reference for a more detailed list of available command.

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