On Thu, 13 Dec 2012, Mark Rogers wrote:
Anyone here played with Android app development? ... "All" it needs to do is create a secure connection (SSH) to an existing server using a pre-shared key, then tunnel a connection through it to a web server, displaying the web content in the app.
[Dan questioned the need to write an app..]
In this case yes: it needs to be something that a "normal person" can install (albeit side-loaded).
It's certainly possible in an app; there are several apps that act as proxys to send all web traffic through a secure tunnel (to defeat the Great Firewall of China etc) which do something pretty close to what I need. The problem is any time I search for keywords like "Android ssh tunnel" I get pages of hits for that, not examples on what I actually need.
I think I just need to re-install the tools and give it a go, and see where I get stuck.
Mark
A brief search for 'Android ssh VPN app' turns up this how-to guide, which describes the setup of SSHTunnel - you can get all the source for that as a starting point from Google code:
http://www.howtogeek.com/121698/how-to-route-all-your-android-traffic-throug... https://code.google.com/p/sshtunnel/
Shouldn't be far from there to a pre-configured app for your client(s)..
Phil.