just to throw in my 2 cents: DynamoDB is not restful. it's RPC. On Jan 29, 2012 9:25 PM, "Kristopher Micinski" <krismicin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Nikolay Elenkov > <nikolay.elen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Kristopher Micinski > > <krismicin...@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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > 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 android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
