I am trying to create a mobile application and use some Bluemix services.
I see a section for "Mobile" in my bluemix account, which includes :
Mobile Application Content Manager
Mobile Client Access
Mobile Foundation
Mobile Quality Assurance
Push Notifications
Kinetise
Testdroid Cloud
Twilio
Are these the only services supported for mobile apps? Or can I connect to other bluemix services as well, say for example a Watson Speech to Text service?
Thanks in advance,
Chaitanya
Yep, you can connect the other services!
The Mobile services are specific to Mobile applications. This is why they are under the Mobile header in Bluemix, but many of the other services include their own Mobile SDKs.
For example, here's a link to the Watson Developer Cloud Mobile SDKs where you can add Watson services to your app:
https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/android-sdk
https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/ios-sdk
Here's a brief overview of the Bluemix Mobile services that I posted as an answer for another question.
Here are the current services that we have and a bit of information about them that follow the MBaaS pattern and here's some links for how to get started):
Mobile Client Access
This service enables you to secure your Mobile Application. You can add Facebook, Google, or custom authentication to your application.
Push Notifications
You can add the Push Notifications service to send push notifications to your app on Android and iOS.
Mobile Analytics (Beta)
The Mobile Analytics service enables you to gather crash and usage knowlege about customers using your mobile app.
Cloudant NoSQL DB
The Cloudant service is the IBM NoSQL database to store your data.
Object Storage
The Object Storage service is an unstructured cloud data store where you can store things like images or files.
Mobile Foundation
The catalog also includes the Mobile Foundation service which you can use to create a test environment before deploying or purchasing the on-premise software. This service is another way for enabling a developer to create a mobile channel.
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I was looking at Couchbase mobile, but I found it is a Mobile DB to DB sort of a solution.
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Now which web servcies you want to uses depends upon your preference.
You can use web services or RESTful service for getting data from the backend.
i want to develop a mobile app with this features:
1-work offline on mobile and don't need to internet(disconnect mode)
2-can import layers to it in public extensions(shape file,personal geodatabase,kml)
3-can edit layers
3-have some forms and fields that fill by mobile user and save in database
i think android is better platform for developing my app,so i need a gis service that can extend in android
i know arcgis and developed web apps and desktop apps with that before,but in mobile app developping, i can't use it,because i had to use arcgisonline service to host my layers and i don't want share my map and want to host data locally and offline
let me know what i need and what platform i choose and which is better
thanks in advance......
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http://www.webmapsolutions.com/category/arcgis-online
--Matt
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I though that when I send an HTTP POST to the web site, the script in the database from the Azure Mobile Service would be launched but it looks not to be true. Isn't it? Because of that, I would write in the controller of an HTTP POST endpoint the code to send the data to the Mobile Service endpoint in order to launch the JavaScript code to send the Push Notification.
Is that the right approach for my goal? Is there any way for sending PUSH notifications from an Azure Web Site or it is only allowed from a Mobile Service?
My last question: Do you know any books or blogs about development in Windows Azure? On the Internet there is lots of documentation but principally those are get started tutorials. I've read some books but those are really complex, boring, and not really practical.
As your website MVC4 based and is running on Windows Azure using SQL Database as backend, I will guess that it is based on ASP.NET and i will write my suggestion based on that.
Now about your question "Is there any way for sending PUSH notifications from a Azure Web Site or it is only allowed from a Mobile Service?" I would say, Azure Mobile web services are designed for the same purpose for any service running on Windows Azure to send push notification on multiple of platforms. Application developer can choose to use Mobile Services to expedite their development as well as have multiple application using the one single service for such objective.
However as you mentioned "Is there any way for sending PUSH notifications from a Azure Web Site" this is not depend on "Azure web sites" instead it is depend on what development technology you are using with your Windows Azure Application. For example in ASP.NET your can use SignalR implementation if your application is based on Java, PHP, Python, Node,js etc then you can find some other run time specific real time implementation. If you look around for websockets you will find implementation in almost every popular language or look for comet programming on this regard. Not only that you can use some of the popular 3rd party applications for this purpose as well. i.e. pusher or any other.
While Windows Azure Mobile Services will give you the best results on Windows Azure platform as it is designed to provide such specific functionality for applications running on it.
Recently released: Azure Notification Hub
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj927170.aspx