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Ruturaj
Ruturaj

Reputation: 630

Building a distributed android application

I want to build an mobile application which runs on different phones (android/iphone) but maintains the same status. If one user makes change in state then it reflects on all phone? What are all possible ways to communicate? I thought about sending text messages which I found out that it is not so good idea. I am confused about sockets because I don't know how to share IP address which changes frequently.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 188

Answers (1)

Nick
Nick

Reputation: 2641

The best way of doing this is the way that alot of apps, for example Skype, through a web server.

What you should do is have the app get the current user's status from a database on the web server, and then let the app change the state of the user on this database. Then since the apps for both on Android and iOS both are retrieving the user's state from this database it will automatically change the user's state on both apps.

You will also have to consider how often the users state is updated on the app.

Upvotes: 1

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