Look into both Google App Engine, and "Parse" for web backends which simplify this kind of thing.
And yes, your question falls along the very popular line of consistency and replication in distributed systems, there are other services as well, Amazon's S3, etc... kris On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Thomas Holmes <[email protected]> wrote: > I apologize if this question has been asked before a thousand times. > I'm getting back into Android Development, I have a few Android > phones, and a few tablets to work with. I have been doing Java for a > long time now, and I have Eclipse and the Android SDK all running on > my linux laptop. > > Since I have a phone and multiple tablets, I log into all of them with > my Google email and password. > On my phone and on my tablet, when I get an email it is synced with > both devices. > When I update my Google Calendar with my desktop, both of my devices > get synced with that updated Google Calendar data. Or, if I use my > tablet or phone to enter a new appt in my Google Calendar, that appt > gets uploaded/synced, and then the calendar gets updated on my phone. > > I can presume that the Google GMail, or Calendar have central > databases on the server side. There is a sync service that works on > making sure my multiple devices all get the same data. This is the > magic I am looking for. > > So, lets day I create a database on my server to centrally store > data. Then I want to create an android app that lets me sign-in so I > authenticate to the application, enter new data from my phone, tablet, > or other android device, and then send that data to the central > database. If I do this from one device, I want my other devices to > routinely look at that central database to see if there is new data, > and then bring that down to that device. > > Is there an API to accommodate this? I didn't know if there were any > classes that already exist to handle syncing data from a central > service to multiple devices? I think there is a Notification API, > but I don't know if that is really what I am looking for. Or, do I > have to code myself an API that handles syncing in my own way? > > Thanks for any help or tips on this!! > > -- > 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 -- 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
