Thread: How much would this cost? How hard to learn myself? Basic App Send Camera through TCP

Hi there,

I have a background in hobby programming experience in VB6 and C++, but none in Java. I am looking at making an Android App as part of software package that I am developing, but trying to determine if it's worth me trying to learn Java and put it together myself. Or the cost of having someone build this piece for me.

The main piece of the application I am writing in C++ for a Windows PC and will account for 99% of the complete application package. I only intend on it being a working prototype which I could then try licence and source funds to develop with a team. This is something I have been doing in my own time as a hobby.

The 2nd part (the Android App) that I would like to develop would simply require someone input a server-ip/port/username/password and click connect. It would then start a TCP connect (over Wifi) and the application would simply be the camera. Every time you take a photo it would save image in an uncompressed format, then send it over the TCP connection in the form of a packet(s). It would not need to display anything or really do anything else, just send images to the main application to process.

I know from my experience in C++ it would be relatively simple to slap something together using all the available libraries and public source code around. How much would something like this cost to make as an Android App? It does not require any polishing or touch ups, not too fazed about minor bugs as long as it works most of the time. I have attached a picture of what I would roughly expect of the App. The TCP protocol and packets I could design and come up with myself, I have yet to do that. I could write pseudocode of the whole TCP connection and everything down to fine details, so it would just be a matter of someone familiar with Java coding to put it together.

Any advice appreciated.

Thanks.

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