We are developing an application with Firebase which includes some sensitive data like messages. I learned that realtime database is encrypted in servers but project administrators can see the data. So I thought we could continue to develop our application without data encryption and minimalize the developer count who has access the database.
Is there any way to develop firebase project without access to database (I thought making our own developer panel for debugging may be good idea) or we should encrypt our data?
If you are working in a big company or a big project using Firebase, how did you solve this problem?
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I've created an Android App which the user creates data in an SQLite database and also creates picture and audio files. The next stage is to create an offline sync to Microsoft Azure (SQL Server and Blob Storage). There will be multiple devices for the App which all need to sync, so data on all devices will be the same.
What is the best method that encapsulates Android App SQLite to Microsoft SQL Server and created files to blob storage in Azure which will handle two way sync?
I've looked at Azure's MobileServiceClient but don't think that totally fits my needs as its just data tables. Maybe Sync Adapter instead?
I'm thinking I should create my own sync but not sure where to start? I think in the app i want to keep a changes table so when data is created or changed its logged in the table and then when it syncs it looks at this table and transfers the data and files. Then on the server side I'm not sure how to handle syncs from multiple devices so that all devices have the same data.
Anyway any pointers would be great.
Thanks
There is a similar SO thread Upload images to Azure Blob Storage from an Android device With Offline Sync which discussed about offline sync for files with Azure Storage, that may helpful for you, but now Azure Mobile SDK for Android in Java doesn't support it, just implement the feature by self. If using Xamarin for Android, there is a solution introduced in the offical blog, that you can refer to and possibly implement this in Java.
Hope it helps.
I made an android application which is collecting data from a wearable device and storing it into a local sqlite database.
Now I want to sync the data of all android devices local sqlite databases to cloud and visualize the data and perform data analytics related operations on it.
Can anyone suggest me what to do?
I have looked around multiple clouds like AWS, GAE, AZURE, HEROKU, GoDadddy shared cloud etc for storing my data in a central database.
My question is that should I directly store data from android into mysql or some other database using jdbc or odbc driver or write a webservice or api for storing data in cloud?
I want to sync data after some time interval i.e. a day or so, between local android device and cloud.
According to your description, based on my understanding, you want to sync up the data from wearable device between all android devices and cloud.
Per my experience, the way to directly store data from android into database is not a good choice. The normal way is creating a web service or rest apis to communicate with mobile device for data synchronizing to cloud.
On Azure, the best practice for your needs is that creating an Azure Mobile App instance and enable the Offline Data Sync feature in Azure Mobile Apps to implement this. You can refer to the Azure offical document Offline Data Sync in Azure Mobile Apps to know the related concept.
You can get start with the tutorial for Android within Azure Mobile Apps, and then continous to the next tutorial to implement the feature of offline sync up data automatically.
As reference, the tutorial How to use the Android client library for Mobile Apps will shows you how to use the Android client SDK for Mobile Apps to access the data from SQL Azure table online.
Meanwhile, to visualize the data and perform data analytics related operations on the cloud data, Azure support more Intelligence + Analysis services which could be used for your future plan.
I have 2 android apps and a web app catering two user groups,
android app + web app for mostly writing data to the database
another android app for retrieving these data
I need my applications connected to the same database, I want to know whether this is possible with Firebase and is considered valid.
I've seen older posts with workarounds but I need to know whether the new Firebase version supports this out of the box.
This is my first time trying to integrate Firebase into one of my projects therefore some guidance on achieving this task would be really useful.
Thanks!
As long as I can remember Firebase supported this even before the "new Firebase 2.0". Following just an excerpt taken of the Realtime Database feature list:
A cloud-hosted NoSQL database. Data is stored as JSON, synced across
connected devices in milliseconds, and available when your app goes
offline.
Accessible directly from client SDKs, or from your server with the REST API
tl;dr
That's totally possible with Firebase.
Friends I'm Planning to design an application such a way that user has to login and he has to enter the data to be stored in cloud and if he opens the account the data should be edited other wise it should display the data.
I would look into solutions such as couchbase:
Apache CouchDB on Android provides a simple way to sync your application data across devices and provide cloud backup of user data. Unlike other cloud solutions, the data is hosted on the device by Couchbase Mobile, so even when the network is down or slow (airplane, subway, backyard) the application is responsive to users.
What this means for you:
You can embed the rock solid distributed database, Mobile Couchbase,
on your Android device. Your Android apps can use Apache CouchDB's
well-proven synchronization technology. If you <3 CouchApps, you can
deploy them as Android apps.
check it out here
so I am writing an android app that will be used at a point of sale in some shops for survey questions. I have a java jsf web app using jpa with a mysql database that I want to sync with, preferably both ways but only a couple of tables. The android app will have only a few tables and will not replicate my server database completely. Unfortunately the android apps will in some places have only intermittent internet access that will drop in and out. I am currently looking at different options to use to store my data on android. I have looked at:
writing my own sync between the database on my server and SQLite on android but there has to be an easier option
storing my data on app engine and syncing with app engine as per the example in the android developers guide however I am not sure how my limited internet connectivity will work
using couchdb but I dont really want to go down this route as I already have the server side set up
does anyone have any ideas?
can I store data locally using android then sync with app engine when I have a connection?
Thanks