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jungkeekim
Courses Plus Student 2,333 PointsI have a question about application integration of Web and App
The companies like Facebook, Instagram, etc, they've all developed Web and App(Android&IOS).
I believe that they have complicated controllers and database architectures since they have many users.
I want to know if they build all the complicated controllers and database just for Web, but not for App. I guess it is like App queries to Web and Web gives the result back.
it goes like... "User(asks 1+1 to App) -> App(asks 1+1 to Web) -> Web(calculates 1+1=2) -> APP(give the answer 2 to User) -> User(get 2)"
instead of... "User(asks 1+1 to APP) -> App(calculates 1+1=2 and gives the answer 2 to User) -> User(get 2)"
The reason that I'm thinking this way is because, you can do more complicated job in JSP, Struct, Spring, MySQL more than just Android OS with Java and Sqlite.
However, another question also comes up from here. If it is done as above the example, the App will be very slow.
Please, tell me how big companies integrate Web and App together.
1 Answer
kunalshitut
5,872 PointsYou are right . Most companies use android apps as a front end with limited functionality. The calculations / data storage is performed at the back end. The reason that the app is not so slow is because of background loading and effective utilization of resources. Plus modern wireless internet allows quick transfer of large amounts of data. If you wanna know how its done you might wanna look up a treehouse course on Ribbit app which was like snapchat, though the app cant be implemented as shown any longer cause the backend system used in the course (Parse.com) has now been shutdown.