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Android

Posted by Nawal Tariq
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Nawal Tariq
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 912 Points

Need to sync databases. Not even sure about that.

I am creating an android app that will be like a noticeboard. Users will perform CRUD operations mostly. This is a semester project and what my evaluator wants is that I create a web app for this too. Now the problem is that I am a newbie at android. I just don't know how the database for web (MySQL) and android (SQLite) will be synchronized. Do I need to create separate databases? One for web and one for android or one would be enough? If yes, which one would that be? Tutorials link or other support material would be highly appreciated.

Thank you

1 Answer

Carlos José
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Carlos José
Courses Plus Student 12,431 Points
Carlos José
Carlos José
Courses Plus Student 12,431 Points

I don't really know the answer but I read a portion of the Wikipedia article and it says it's an embedded database implemented as a library which is a piece of code other program use AFAIK.

So the thing is that this looks like the mainframes where the dummies pull data from a main Giant server and do operations with this data. So I would expect in a probable manner that you will have a main database in a server and then pull data and stored it in a local embedded database unique to each android device.