Re: [android-developers] Re: uploading to the google cloud service

2012-01-02 Thread TreKing
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 2:53 PM, John Goche johngoch...@googlemail.comwrote: The other thing I was wondering was, if I write an android application to use appengine and my phone has a web browser, what would make me want to deploy the service as a data connection to my android application

Re: [android-developers] Re: uploading to the google cloud service

2011-12-29 Thread John Goche
Hi Studio! What a great service this appengine seems to be. Just a shame that MySQL is not going to be available for free it seems, so that users will have to stick with Java Persistence APIs and Java Data Objects (JPA and JDO) in order to save their data. The other thing I was wondering was, if

Re: [android-developers] Re: uploading to the google cloud service

2011-12-28 Thread John Goche
Thanks Bali, However it seems you still have to have a server out there to be able to use C2DM. I was wondering whether the server that talks to the C2DM server can also be hosted by google somewhere so you don't have to pay the fees to set up a dedicated server and use google as a data store

[android-developers] Re: uploading to the google cloud service

2011-12-28 Thread havexz
BTW ...reading your question again...looks like you are looking for Backing up App Data and then restoring it on different device. So this is what I think you want: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/backup.html On Dec 28, 5:29 am, John Goche johngoch...@googlemail.com wrote:

Re: [android-developers] Re: uploading to the google cloud service

2011-12-28 Thread John Goche
Thank you for your reply, However I see the following note on the page you posted: The backup service is *not* designed for synchronizing application data with other clients So it seems the only way to sync application data is to deploy one's own server software and hope the user is willing to

Re: [android-developers] Re: uploading to the google cloud service

2011-12-28 Thread Studio LFP
You may be thinking about Google App Engine. https://appengine.google.com There is a free option with a set quota that you can pay to increase. Steven Studio LFP http://www.studio-lfp.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group.

[android-developers] Re: uploading to the google cloud service

2011-12-27 Thread havexz
Looks like this is what you looking for: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/05/android-cloud-to-device-messaging.html On Dec 27, 5:36 pm, John Goche johngoch...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello, I remember reading somewhere that it is possible for an application to connect to a free