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I am building an android app using Android Studio. This app requires some cloud backend to sync user data across devices. After some research, I came across the Mobile Backend Starter from google which provides a fully deployed app engine backend and a client android application.
The problem is that every video/tutorial out there is using Eclipse to open this client application. When you try to import it to Android Studio, you get an Assertion:Null error.
Another step I tried is that, I opened it in Eclipse, followed google documentation to set
And then tried to import to Android Studio. This time I got an error that the "The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect"
Can someone help me out with this? Is it also possible to use the "Generate Mobile Backend" option in android studio? But wouldnt this mean that we cannot leverage the client libraries provided in Mobile Backend Starter?
Edit (to add more details to the question):
If I use the "Tools > Google Cloud Tools > Generate App Engine Backend" method, will I be able to get all the boiler plate code in the Mobile Backend android client?
Also, I tried today to Generate App Engine Backend and point to my existing Mobile Backend Starter app engine project. But this did not bring in end point connections for mobilebackend api. Am I missing something here?
Yes there is an option in Android Studio also for Generating App Engine Backend.
Tools > Google Cloud Tools > Generate App Engine Backend
Here is a nice tutorial on Android Blog for the same
http://android-developers.blogspot.in/2013/06/adding-backend-to-your-app-in-android.html
But look in to this post before doing this as Google App Engine Back-end still uses maven so you need to install that before using it.
Maven needed when generating Google App Engine backend in Android Studio
This is an old question but for those that come to this now the easiest way to get started is with this unofficial build for android studio. Why couldn't google do this themselves?
https://github.com/thagikura/mobile-backend-starter-android-client-with-AndroidStudio
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Currently I have an android project in android studio, but I want to add a cloud endpoints backend to it. Dont want to manage 2 separate projects in git for these.
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https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/solutions-mobile-backend-starter-java
Frustratingly any documentation that exists seems out of date or only for Eclipse".
I want to use Gradle and not Maven , Android Studio and not Eclipse
I followed the Tutorial
https://developers.google.com/cloud/samples/mbs/
but the extend page left me confused
https://developers.google.com/cloud/samples/mbs/extend_backend
I would like to know if anyone has tried this
I thought about going from the other direction creating an app and then Google Cloud Tools and App Engine Backend with Google Cloud Messaging but I do not see a deploy , I did see this, Deploy Google App Engine backend from Android Studio
but have not tried yet
There is a project on GitHub which you can use as module. It provides you with the basic client libraries. You can use it as starting point. See https://github.com/thagikura/mobile-backend-starter-android-client-with-AndroidStudio and follow the instructions there.