On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Nikolay Elenkov <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Kristopher Micinski > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Right, right. I don't think that this is extremely Android specific, >> but I think that Android apps are much more likely to do restful >> communication with a backend than standard apps. Maybe this hasn't >> been your experience, but it's been mine. (And that could just be >> because of the types of apps I write.) Thanks for your input, though, >> I do suspect that major apps all roll their own. >> > > Far from being major, but I use my own, running on App Engine. > Not really a problem, just some extra work. Authentication can > be tricky though, if you don't want to use Google accounts > (which is easy, but a lot of people freak out when they see > account related permissions on an app). If you only wanted to > store files/unstructured data, using the Google Cloud storage > (Google's S3) would probably be the easiest solution, no need > for a dedicated frontend. >
Hey, thanks for telling me this! I had never known of that perception before, and it's really good feedback! > Amazon makes it fairly easy to use their services (S3, DynamoDB, > etc), but you need to running a server just to get authentication tokens > (Token Vending Machine), which is a pain (and potentially expensive). > For example, you can store data directly in their DynamoDB, without > needing to roll your own REST frontend: > > http://aws.amazon.com/articles/7439603059327617 > Cool! Thanks for the links, I had heard of these before, but I hadn't investigated them too much. > TVM: > http://aws.amazon.com/articles/4611615499399490 > Thanks, > And then there is https://www.parse.com/ which reportedly takes > care of all this stuff for you, but I haven't actually used it. > I keep wanting to use it to see what their service is like, so I signed up and am going to try it out for a while.. kris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
