[android-developers] Re: Thanks, Android Developers are the BEST! Another question about databases?

2011-10-04 Thread Sam
I was planning for everything to run on both a phone and tablet. The phone would be used by field workers to do the documentation and the tablet would be used by another to setup schedules, and among a lot of other things also be used to select a report and have it print. The printing would not be

[android-developers] Re: Thanks, Android Developers are the BEST! Another question about databases?

2011-10-04 Thread Studio LFP
Since you are looking to access the data on multiple devices, I would definitely suggest a server of some sort. I personally use Fedora Core (http://fedoraproject.org/), but there are quite a few options available. You could even make sure of Google App Engine (https://appengine.google.com).

[android-developers] Re: Thanks, Android Developers are the BEST! Another question about databases?

2011-10-04 Thread Sam
Thank you Steven.. I'm very new to servers, Question because I'm not sure if i understand. With Fedora core I could use my desktop as my server(which I'll be using for my database and such), like if i had fedora installed on a second hard drive or virtual hard drive? without any other hosting

[android-developers] Re: Thanks, Android Developers are the BEST! Another question about databases?

2011-10-04 Thread Studio LFP
If you had a virtualization package of some kind you could easily do it. Something like VMware Workstation (http://www.vmware.com/) would work. There is also quite a few other packages out there you could check out. I think most of them have some sort of trial edition. Load Fedora or any

[android-developers] Re: Thanks, Android Developers are the BEST! Another question about databases?

2011-10-01 Thread Studio LFP
Android, along with most mobile OSes, don't excel at printing quite yet. I'm seeing movement toward more printing functions, but I doubt we'll see an all out print manager style functionality any time soon. I guess they might surprise us with it in the next version, but we'll have to wait and