Moving to the Cloud Allows for More Creative Room

July 16, 2014 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Moving to the Cloud Allows for More Creative Room

Open source native software libraries for Android and iOS have been released by Cloudant for developers to manage and replicate mobile application data on phones, tablets, and other occasionally connected devices. Dr. Dobbs brought this our direction in their article, “Cloudant Eyes “Occasionally” Connected Devices.” Both libraries are also API-compatible with Apache CouchDB.

This move is all about giving mobile developers the freedom to build offline access into their applications. The software libraries provide a simplified API with a device-local database indexing and query layer that supposedly matches the expectations of mobile developers more closely than cloud database semantics.

This is an interesting move, and one worth watching to see if it is a trend among mobile users.

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.