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I recently started programming in Android, and I already have done some easy apps, but today I want to ask you how some apps are done, to can be able to develop some advanced app in future.
In particular, I want to know how the apps like Booking, Airbnb, Couchsurfing or Worldpackers and much more existing apps like them in the market work.
I assume that they are web based applications, and maybe have some database from where retrieve data to show results in the webside and in the app, and it also reload this database from website or app?
Is it some software architectural pattern (I don't know the name) for this type of apps I can take a look at and learn?
Do you know if exist some recommended framework which can help you to develop this type of apps?
This are my questions, basically please help me to understant a little more about this kind of code. If you know some app example name, it is also welcome.
The companys that offers those apps have web services that serves datas trough Http/Https to be consumed by applications.
Android uses URLConnection to download data, and libraries like GSON to parse JSON data and DOM for XML and stores internally on SQLite to be displayed to users.
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I need some tips, something to give me a way or to brighten my mind. My app idea is a Recipe's Book app. But I imagine the following scenario: user writes recipes in PC (desktop app), and then, when going to cook, at the kitchen, read/ edit the recipes on the Mobile version. Aka the app do the same things in both platforms. The app is simple, basically the data will be text. But my problem is: I only knew how to develop native apps, both mobile or desktop, with local database. Recently I've been developing on xamarin. I'm doing well at it, but My question is: how am I going to share this database? I would need it to be on cloud, right? So how could I be doing that? I just want to understand, not how exactly to do it, but now I dont have a clue on how to do that. And if you have a better platform to develop this idea, I accept tips
You need two things
Database
API
The database is to store the data, and the API is the way your different apps will exchange the data with the API.
API in a nutshell
For example : the desktop will talk to the API to add a recipe to the database, and form the other side the Mobile App will ask the API to get that recipe.
I advice you to start with MongoDB (free tier) and Express it's the fastest way to get started
According to your situation I can advice you to use Firebase Real Time Database, it has all the functionality you want of updating data in real time and fetch it also faster and implementing it is not hard as you need to configure it in your project environment I can refer you to this Page to learn more about firebase , in case you want to refer to their documentation check here.
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I am starting to develop a vocabulary app out of necessity without good prior knowledge of the tools that I will have to use. Please excuse the nooby question: your answers, even short and vague, will save me lots of time...
The app is supposed to store entries made by user (words) and display them for learning purposes. Once the words are entered from a mobile device, the database should be accordingly updated on PC. If the entries are made from PC, the database is updated on the mobile phone. What is an adequate way to implement this? If written in C# with SQLite, the database file would have to be imported/exported each time the entries are made which would be painful.
I have just a guess that a kind of a web app will suite the purpose. From you I only need general directions: what languages, what techonology/software/tools. Thank you and sorry for the type of question!
As you stated, you're only at the beginning.
But in order to give you a general guideline to help you started, I would save the DB in firebase DB solutions (they used to have one, now there two). Then, you'll have read and write access to it both from your PC client and your Android client (and any other client that is connected to the internet, like iPhone as well for that matter).
This also lets you to pick any programming language you'd like.
Firebase is Google's set of many handy tools and libraries that help during software and app development. You can read more at the official site: https://firebase.google.com/.
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I have a online room booking website whose backend is written in ASP.NET..I wanted to create an android app which will be completely attached with the backend of my website..In my android app I want existing users to login and new users to sign up and then they can book rooms according to availability...So please kindly suggest me the requirement on how to start this project..I am clueless..My website is mobile responsive too..my expectation is great user experience.MY BIGGEST PROBLEM IS...HOW WILL I CONNECT MY APP WITH THE BACKEND SERVER....please suggest me or provide a reference..
If you're web designer and don't know anything about developing mobile application in android/iOS then you should probably try phonegap
You can reuse your website code for Android/iOS application so you do not need to worry about back-end server connectivity or anything else. You just need to make sure that your web UI is mobile responsive. So it's better to use bootstrap/jQuery mobile.It will exactly work in mobile as it's working on web UI right now. Refer phonegap doc for more information.
First you need to separate what are the most important functionalities of your room booking website. Create a list with each one and classify it.
After you do that, create prototypes of screen or create forms for your users asking what are the best features to include in the app.
I recommended you take a look in the Android Material Documentation. This will help you to achieve great user experience.
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I'm a beginner in mobile app development. Am planning to develop an app related to social networking. Curious to understand the best possible resources to start with. I see some websites like apparchitect.com which help to create a mobile app easily. But I'm not able to figure out how the backend works. Can anyone guide me on how I can proceed with UI and the backend? Are there any tools or platforms available in cloud which will help me to quicken my mobile app development especially social networking apps?
This is a very broad question but i can understand it is difficult for beginners to approach as you don't know where to start, you can design user interface using google's IDE or eclipse, stick to that at least for the start before you move to advanced or custom UI design
for back-end there are many choices including but not limited to sql, sql lite, many other sql based products this list can get quite long, however i'd suggest parse.com it is easy to implement and reliable cloud based service or you could look at similar services usually they don't charge until your app gets to a certain request/traffic limit
if you can afford below sites offer good training content
https://teamtreehouse.com/home
http://www.pluralsight.com/
http://www.raywenderlich.com/category/android (paid plus free content)
Hope this helps !
That's a broad question. You can look at Android tutorials on teamtreehouse.com and look into using Parse.com for the backend. At least one of the teamtreehouse Android tutorials focuses on Parse.com, and another tutorial focuses on UI layout.
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I'm creating a website with an according app for iOS/Android and I'm doing some research for how I should do everything. I need to be able to post data from the different platforms and I want to access the same data from every platform, kind of like a wall where ypu can write stuff. I'm thinking that the data needs to be stored in a database but how do I access i.e. an SQL database from iOS/Android?
A simple research would've brought you a great tutorial on how to link a MySQL database through PHP to an Android app.
You'll be required the basics of PHP though so you may want to study a bit about that prior to starting.
Take a look at parse.com. This likely provides what you need without having to set up server with a database, etc. You can access your data on parse.com from iOS, Android, your web site, and a number of other platforms should you need to.