Android development, what you need to know for client-server "magic"?

Question

Android

Experience in java - 6 months, php - 3 months, but unfortunately I never encountered get / post requests, I only wrote servers and small parsers with the output of the title, text and that's it, I would like to learn this, I tried to search in Google, I got just banal examples without explanation, on which sites to look for similar topics?

Answer 1

Providers and loaders are tight without them.
Understand what REST is and what it is eaten with.
for php server there is a good solution slimframework
examples:
Сreate REST API for Android app using PHP, Slim an...
Create REST applications with the Slim micro-framework