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
- There is an example provided in the code of PyGrid:
- Edit the file
local_connection.propertiesin 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
- If using the emulator, this address should be
- Start the Android application
- Press the "Connect" button in the Android app
- Start a Jupyter notebook and create a
WebsocketIOClientWorkerobject.- 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