Tag: nosql

Create A Couchbase Lite Todo List With Native Android

April 29, 2015 Nic Raboy

By now, if you’ve been keeping up with my tutorials, you can probably put two-and-two together and determine that I’m really trying to get into the NoSQL world. Up until now I’ve brushed upon Google Firebase, Facebook Parse, and Apache CouchDB, most of which I’ve done some kind of todo list type application. Now of course, many of my previous tutorials were based on hybrid app development instead of native.

This time we’re going to take a look at Couchbase’s version of NoSQL in a mobile Android application. In particular a native Android application.

Syncing Data With Firebase Using Ionic Framework

December 26, 2014 Nic Raboy

Lately there has been a lot of buzz about Firebase and now that it has been bought by Google, it is probably only going to get bigger. Firebase has a very thorough datastore API making it very useful for applications that can leverage JavaScript.

Now you might be asking yourself, well can’t I use the Dropbox datastore API that you mentioned in one of your previous articles? You absolutely can, however, Firebase is a far better solution when creating a service because the data isn’t sandboxed to a specific user like Dropbox.

In this example, we’re going to create a simple Apache Cordova Android and iOS application using Ionic Framework.