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androiddatabasegoogle-app-engine
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Reputation: 97

Can an android app call from a database stored on google app engine?

I have no experience with hosting android app databases on google app engine and would like to know if the following is possible:

users upload files to the global database stored on app engine. the user sees a stream of the latest files added to the database on his android device.

While I am sure the concept is achievable, I am asking specifically if google app engine is the right tool for this task?

thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 35

Answers (1)

Sharjeel
Sharjeel

Reputation: 15798

Applications don't call databases directly.

You have to write a small interface (API) on your google-app-engine server in any of your favorite language that returns either JSON or XML data. You can call that google-app-engine interface url, pass your parameters and get result in either XML or JSON.

Then you can parse that data in your application and show results.

Upvotes: 3

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