Talking to remote CouchDB server from Android

Question

I'm designing a turn based game similar to Words With Friends . I don't need the data to be stored persistently on the phone in a local CouchDB.

I've attempted HTTP requests using HttpPut / HttpGet and HttpClient with no success.

What is the best way to communicate with CouchDB from an Android application? What alternative database backends are available?

Answer 1

I would recommend TouchDB-Android . We've been using TouchDB-iOS for our iOS apps and are planning on using TouchDB-Android when we start Android development. TouchDB has an active development community -- see this google group . You can use TouchDB to connect to a local or remote CouchdB database and to replicate between the two.