title: Talking to remote CouchDB server from Android
body: <p>I'm designing a turn based game similar to <em>Words With Friends</em>. I don't need the data to be stored persistently on the phone in a local CouchDB.</p>
  
  <p>I've attempted HTTP requests using <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/org/apache/http/client/methods/HttpPut.html" rel="nofollow"><code>HttpPut</code></a>/<a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/org/apache/http/client/methods/HttpGet.html" rel="nofollow"><code>HttpGet</code></a> and <a href="http://developer.android.com/reference/org/apache/http/client/HttpClient.html" rel="nofollow"><code>HttpClient</code></a> with no success.</p>
  
  <p>What is the best way to communicate with CouchDB from an Android application? What alternative database backends are available?</p>