Re: [android-developers] Re: Poll: how many of you use a backend service or roll your own

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Nikolay Elenkov
<nikolay.elenkov@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Kristopher Micinski
> <krismicinski@gmail.com> 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

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