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Developing with CouchDB on Android

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60 pointsdaleharvey3 comments

Currently most of this work is generic setup, the actual core of the work is simply running

    couchapp push --export > file.json

and putting that in the android package correctly. I will hopefully have the mundane setup stuff removed as much as possible, but I wanted to get this out pretty early to see how people may use it.

Can you setup the CouchDB on the phone to do continuous replication of the CouchApp from an online source (CouchBase or Cloudant)?

Yup the CouchNotes demo app does push / pull replication, just needs another flag for continous, the mobile CouchDB is a vanilla CouchDB so will replicate to CouchOne / Cloudant fine.

Replication on mobile isnt without gotchas though, there are issues with mobile carriers interfering with http via proxies and various minor bugs. CouchDB will be updated with these fixes as they come along (within weeks, not months) so I wouldnt let it hold you off building an app that requires replication.

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