Mobile app/server architecture
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| I have a friend starting out a new project unrelated to games, and thought you guys might have some good advice. He wants to make a mobile app that runs on iOS and Android. The app will send and receive information to a MySQL database on his server. So basically, the architecture is something like Instagram or Facebook's mobile apps. This isn't my area of expertise, but the way I would set it up is like this: -Java and Objective-C handle the user interface on Android and iOS. -The bulk of the mobile app is written in C++. -C++ uses networking commands to interface with a PHP script on the server. -The PHP script gets and sets data to and from the MySQL database. Java/Obj-C <-> C++ <-> PHP <-> MySQL The other way I could see doing this would be a server-side C++ application that is constantly running, and connects to the mobile app via networking commands: Java/Obj-C <-> C++ (client) <-> C++ (server) <-> MySQL What is the "right" way to do this? Last edited 2012 |
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