移动后端入门与Appengine连接的Android项目

Question

Can someone please explain the difference between Mobile Backend Starter vs Appengine connected Android Project ? Is Mobile Backend Starter here to replace Appengine connected Android Project ? The fact that two different technologies exist must have some meaning. So why is Google providing these seemingly (to me) competing approaches?

Answer 1

They are 2 different things depending on where you want to start from and definitely there are overlaps in terms of functionality offered.

Mobile Backend Starter gives you both a Server and mobile client applications (Android / iOS). The Project is essentially a generic Mobile Backend As A Service (mBAAS) Project that runs on App Engine, gives you a generic data store, Push Notifications, Cloud Endpoints based integration in a ready to deploy package end - to - end. You can easily take this and modify it to provide an App Engine cloud backend for your mobile applications. To get these projects, you directly visit https://developers.google.com/cloud/samples/mbs/ and get started.

An Appengine Connected Android project is for an Android project only with an App Engine backend. It sets you up with basic cloudendpoints integration and push messaging, but with no generic Cloud Datastore creation to store your data. You then need to hook/write things up. Here you will start within your Eclipse or Android studio environment.