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pablocity
pablocity

Reputation: 504

Should my Xamarin app require a backend server

I've recently started learning Xamarin platform. I know C# at quite good level, and have a little target in case of basic Android development. I want to write an app, which have a list with items. Next to each item, there is a counter, you can increase items count or decrease it. That is really simple program as long as you look at app side. The tricky thing is that I want every person, who has the app installed, can manipulate item's number in "global way", so I mean that variable containing that number is the same for each app instance.

I suppose that it must be stored on the server, but I don't know if it's possible to write just using Xamarin with ex. Web Services, or whether I need separate technology like Node.js.

I appreciate any hints.

Upvotes: -1

Views: 352

Answers (1)

Daniel
Daniel

Reputation: 125

I don't really understand what is your goal - regarding technical aspect -, but it seems you need a database on a server. Then your app, the clients, may communicate it through a web service or through sql queries (I don't know yet, if you can use Entity framework), then you update the values for everyone accordingly.
I am also new to Xamarin, do not know its capabilities yet.

Upvotes: 1

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