Throttle FTP Transfer Bandwidth

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Demonstrates the bandwidth properties BandwidthThrottleUp and BandwidthThrottleDown, and the read-only UploadTransferRate and DownloadTransferRate.

Note: The local paths are relative to the application's current working directory. Absolute paths may also be used. Supply the paths appropriate to your own environment.

// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    boolean success = false;

    CkFtp2 ftp = new CkFtp2();

    ftp.put_Hostname("ftp.example.com");
    ftp.put_Username("myFtpLogin");

    //  Limit the approximate transfer rate in bytes per second.  0 (the default) means no limit.
    //  Throttling is useful to avoid saturating a shared link.
    ftp.put_BandwidthThrottleDown(1048576);
    ftp.put_BandwidthThrottleUp(524288);

    //  Normally you would not hard-code the password in source.  You should instead obtain it
    //  from an interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
    ftp.put_Password("myPassword");

    success = ftp.Connect();
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, ftp.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    success = ftp.GetFile("public_html/bigfile.zip","qa_output/bigfile.zip");
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, ftp.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    //  The current average rates are updated during transfers.
    Log.i(TAG, "Download rate: " + String.valueOf(ftp.get_DownloadTransferRate()) + " bytes/sec");
    Log.i(TAG, "Upload rate: " + String.valueOf(ftp.get_UploadTransferRate()) + " bytes/sec");

    success = ftp.Disconnect();
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, ftp.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }


  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}