How to create my own network protocol to communicate in java

Question

I want to create my own network communication protocol using java to communicate between my android app and server(I don't want use http services ) . As i don't have much more knowledge about how actually protocol works i am confused. I have seen some tutorials where they have created some protocols using socket programming , is this only way to do so?? please help .

Answer 1

Even though you are into the idea, you will end up by having it on top of the HTTP protocol (this because of its firewall friendliness , specially when we are talking an android server solution). Still you will need to have the required HTTP headers . I would recommend take a look at REST and see if it is good enough for you.