Hello everyone, I am getting started in android development and I really want to create some form of online game. My goal is to start out with a turn- based game and move onto advanced multiplayer games. I want to have users associated with their google account, provide some sort of matchmaking to pair people together, have their stats stored in a database, and use the stats for various leaderboards and such. I have read over an older discussion on this list at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg75993.html . There was a lot of good information that I gathered but I still have some questions.
What I originally started with is an apache web server on a laptop that I don't need right now (2.0Ghz Core 2, 3GB Ram). I wrote a perl module that can take in a user's name with a JSON GET request. However, I stopped this approach after learning that apache HTTPD is not very scalable for a large number of persistent connections. Therefore, I switched over to Erlang + Mochiweb with the intention of using Nitrogen. I used Nitrogen because I am looking for a comet based solution so I can avoid polling the server. There is a demo app that uses these three technologies that seemed perfect for what I wanted to do. http://nitrogenproject.com/demos/comet2. In that demo, it shows how users can post message and all client's connected will receive the message, so it is similar to how a game would work. After getting it set up, I realized that developing the client part on android would be very difficult when using Nitrogen so I'm about to give up on Nitrogen and possibly a bit inefficient as Nitrogen seems to be more about getting web browsers to do persistent connections. Erlang without Nitrogen might still be a path I could take. All I want is a server-client model that has persistent connections, comet based, and is scalable. But I need help in learning what technologies to use to get to this goal. Any starter code or links would be helpful too. Thanks, Ravi -- 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
