Just adding this in here - android app code is on github and is at : GitHub - nirsoffer/RobotController - I will create a blog post soon to describe it and what it does.
Essentially this is quick and dirty app using Google volley for the RPC POST requests. Since volley uses a request queue type pattern from a different thread than the UI thread, this is cleaner than the usual blocking IO that other SDKs may have to use.
As promised (and possibly, to no one’s care ) - here’s the link to the blog post and explaining the app and an example of how to send POST requests to Particle.io using Google Volley: