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erin c
erin c

Reputation: 1345

architecture for mobile apps and supporting web apps

Sorry if my question seems too general, I have a mobile app idea, which I am planning to work on as a side hobby. I have never built such a system from the scratch, therefore architectural decisions become incredibly important given the fact that I have only nights and weekends to work on this project.

As far as I see , mobile apps are generally backed by a web site which is offering similar or even broader service. My target mobile audiences will be android and ios. My plan is having a service that interacts with db and on the higher level an iPhone app, android app and a fully functional web site will be talking to this generic service/common code base. I am thinking about going with a restful api, and transfer json to all of these three platforms. Does that sound like a good approach?

Also from hosting perspective what would be more cost effective? I am more familiar coding in asp.net or java than php, can web frameworks like symfony save me hours and bucks or will it only complicate things? As far as I know AWS has higher rates for hosting .net apps. For the db, I would like to go with mongodb just like foursquare did , since I will be storing a lot of geographical data.

Feel free to share your experiences if you have gone through a similar decision process in the past.

Upvotes: 1

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Answers (1)

Julian
Julian

Reputation: 539

If you are trying to realize an app idea I highly recommend using a Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) provider such as:

There are many many more... here's a good article about that type of service. Most of them offer a free usage tier that allows you to get your app to production without any hosting costs at all. If it's successful then you scale up as needed.

Upvotes: 1

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