title: android open socket and send commands
body: <p>Hay Guys, I'm new to Android but heres what i want to do.</p>
  
  <p>I want to beable to open a connect to a server using a given IP and PORT, then send commands to the server and get data back.</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas what i need to google to help on this? I know how to do it in PHP (using fputs, fgets, and fsockopen).</p>
  
  <p>any help would be brill.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>