See publication in PySyft for Android. Extending OpenMined to mobile devices

The Android Worker is an app that connects to a PySyft worker and performs the operations on its behalf. It is part of a setup that uses a socket server, a socket client and the app itself which is another socket client

• Start the socket server
  • There is an example provided in the code of PyGrid: socketio_server_demo.py
• Edit the file local_connection.properties in the Android project to match the IP address of the machine running the socket server.
  • If using the emulator, this address should be 10.0.2.2
• Start the Android application
• Press the "Connect" button in the Android app
• Start a Jupyter notebook and create a WebsocketIOClientWorker object.
  • Note that you need to provide strategies for serialization and compression
  • See the example Socket Bob.ipynb
• Connect the socketio client (Bob)
• Execute the operations in the notebook and see how Android handles them!

• The project is still in an early stage and only some PySyft operations are implemented: send, get, add, delete, mul
• Make sure the socket server, the client in the notebook and the app all point to the same host/port
• To run the setup locally, it is better to use an Android emulator

This app has been tested with PySyft 0.2.0a2 (b0b8a135) and PyGrid commit 8f990d97