1. Server-Less Apps
using servers
without caring
Friedger Müffke
#fmdroid
droidcon London 2012

2. Motivation

3. Web services
● General audience
Made for servers and web pages
● Specific purpose
Speech recognition
Payment
Directions

4. Scope
● Mobile Audience
Android tools (and others)
● Technical purpose
User management
Data storage
Push notifications
Location

5. On-Device Apps
● Communication with 3rd party app
● Trust relation between user and 3rd party
app
● SDK for communication via intents
● Library projects
Facebook (3.0) / Google+
Box/Google Drive

6. Google Spreadsheet
1. Add jars
(jackson, protobuf-java, google-client-api-*,
google-http-client-*)
2. Add oauth or use Google Service (new!)
3. Make HttpRequest
4. Parse

7. Google Spreadsheet (2)
final HttpResponse resp = mHttpClient.execute(request);
final int status = resp.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
final InputStream input = resp.getEntity().getContent();
try {
final XmlPullParser parser = ParserUtils.newPullParser(input);
handler.parseAndApply(parser, mResolver);
} catch (XmlPullParserException e) {
throw new HandlerException("Bad Req: " +req.getRequestLine(), e);
} finally {
if (input != null) input.close();
}
SpreadsheetEntry entry = SpreadsheetEntry.fromParser(parser);
row = service.insert(listFeedUrl, row);

8. netmera
● Content
○ Media
○ GeoLocation
● User Management
○ ACL via user property
● Push Notification on Server (Java SDK)

9. Netmera (2)
c = NetmeraContent("House")
c.add("price", "10.000GBP")
c.create() / c.createInBackground()
NetmeraService.search()
NetmeraUser, NetmeraMedia,
NetmeraGeoLocation
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10. kii
● User Management
○ ACL for application, group, user level
● Data storage as JSON or Files
● Syncing folders
http://documentation.kii.com/en/android-guides

11. StackMob
● User Management
○ support for Twitter and Facebook
● Data model super class with CRUD methods
● Queries by field, also by location
On Server:
● Push Notifications on Server
● Custom Code SDK (Java/Scala)

12. More and Name Dropping
● many Analytics and Ads provider
● User feedback WebView with disqus
● ScoreNinja
● QuickBlox
● UserGrid
● Pusher
● Cosm
● StorageRoom
● Parse
● Makala (private beta)
● Azur Mobile, Amazon S3