I have been reading about app engine but I still dont know what I can and cant do with it in a android application.
Basically what I want to do is be able to create/manage a database in the cloud that the app can pull down and update the local database if needed. Creation and managing would be done outside of the app by me.
I dont know much about all of this as I am just getting started with it but I already have an application made, I just want to add this feature to it. I have never written any sort of Web Service calls or anything either but I have used them to get data and such
Can this be done? Any tutorials out there to help me out?
this should help:
Google I/O 2011: Android + App Engine: A Developer's Dream Combination
Google I/O 2012 - Building Mobile App Engine Backends for Android, iOS and the Web
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I have been trying to learn how to create an app that allows people to upload images via the web or android.
I know that Android uses content providers to implement a mechanism for the sharing of data between applications. More specifically, Android uses the MediaStore API to make use of this functionality. However, that is limited to other Android devices.
I was wondering how I would go about connecting a web app made using reactjs to an Android app preferably using firebase. However, if it isn't possible in firebase that would be okay too,
I am a beginner in web app development, so I am not particularly sure about how the software's architecture will look like.
I have been struggling to find an updated concise solution online. Can anyone point me in the right direction and if not point me to some resources that will guide me in the right direction.
Thank you!
Attach/configure both of your application to use same database and storage bucket in firebase
As you can see I connected my android application as well as web administration application to same firebase project.
As you can see there is an add app option in firebase console where you can select platform. Register both of your application on same project and thats it.
I have spent over 2 days reading over the documentation over at Google Cloud Platform to find out how to hook up my Android app to my Google Cloud Storage.
I don't know if it's just the documentation that's just bad or my lack of understanding but I have really not gotten any closer in implementing this. By contrast I remember it took me a couple of hours implementing Amazon S3 support in an earlier Android project so I'm not a complete idiot.
My requirement:
Upload images to my GCS account
Questions:
Is there a simple "Hello World" type of example for hooking up an Android app to GCS?
I don't need access to users data so does that mean that I don't need OAuth 2.0?
Thanks
You need to use app engine and can use cloud end points to build your application. Detail procedure for creating android app and using app engine as back-end are described here and here
I am new to android app developing, I just wanna know the basic tools required to make an app.
Also please tell me how some apps like flipboard etc. update their contents without updating the whole app itself.
how some apps like flipboard etc. update their contents without updating the whole app itself.
They get their data from the internet, so their main database is in the server on the internet not in the apps. Hence, the applicaton it self is not updated, because the code is still same, only the data (taken from internet) changed.
To get the data from internet, you will need a web service (using REST or SOAP) and a server/hosting. For beginning, i suggest you to use XAMPP (apache + mySql) and using REST as web service.
For developing android app you can use android-studio, It is google recommended IDE for android development. Also you can checkout this link for tips android cliffnotes.
I am a beginner in Android app making. I want to build a basic Cloud app which can take back up of the user's data and can store it on remote server. I know there are millions of such app, but would like to know some link that I can refer to begin my App building.
I hope I am clear with my question.
I recommend using Google App Engine. You can do all of the coding in eclipse, and once you have it set up properly it's fairly painless to deploy your webapp to the server and start testing your android app.
If you require a true relational database, google app engine makes you pay extra. If you don't however, there is no charge for the standard datastore. Also, app engine is free until you have lots of traffic to/from the server.
You can develop in Java or python. Here is the setup guide for eclipse (Java).
I know my question eventually won't match the title I opted for the question, but I honestly didn't know how to put it as I'm new to the Android and PhoneGap environments. If this is not a programming related question please accept my apologies.
We have got a .NET application that sends TASKS to our mobile employees' netbooks via webservice. The mobile users have got a local database that gets updated with new TASKS once they login. When the TASKS are completed, the local database gets updated. If there is a stable internet connection the update is then sent to the remote database.
Now we are planning to do both Android and iPhone version of the application. I understand this is possible using PhoneGap and HTML-CSS-JavaScript, but don't know how to go about it.
If anyone has experience of implementing these sort of applications, please guide me to some links/articles. I did some search on Google but didn't get a precise answer.
Thank You.
The getting started guides are all here. Each platform requires some amount of setup because of platform-specific SDK's and so forth you must download, so I would suggest starting with iOS if you have an iPhone or Android if you have an Android phone and then once you're up and running making the switch to developing for both simultaneously.
As for the question about a SQLite database, PhoneGap should be able to do what you describe. The documents for local storage, once you get to that point, are here.