Google I/O 2011: Android + App Engine: A Developer's Dream Combination

Xavier Ducrohet, Brad Abrams

This talk will introduce App Engine Tooling for Android. A complete set of Eclipse-based Java development tools for building Android applications that are backed by App Engine. With these tools developers can focus on building fantastic Android applications using common tools and techniques that span the client and server parts of the application AND make it extremely simple to deploy the server side to App Engine. This talk walks through building a fantastic cloud based android application.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Android
• App Engine
• Cloud
• Eclipse
• Java
• ADT
• GPE

[oldarney]

+1 for the dancing.

[amcohen123]

great stuff!

Any plan to include a sample integration with other mobile platform such as iPhone, WP7, etc

After all many appengine users will need to integrate it with several mobile device types including the specific push notification in each of them.

Cheers

[JarleXXX]

Look how easy it is. Just open a folder and drop 10 to 15 files of pre-made code into your solution, and then you are finished. Please. I think the Android phone is great. Good UI and a lot of good apps. But it is much simpler to develop apps for windows phone 7. Better tools and a lot less code is needed to do the same.

[charlires]

Where can I find this sample code?.

[InsaurraldeGustavo]

Great Video!

Anyone can tell me wich is the default font on eclipse on OSx?

I love that font!

[JUYkJ4GolbOgOtS]

@amcohen123 you can simply build a REST based web service on GAE ... you can look for jersey google app on google, you can find examples. You can use REST with JSON, any device can parse json.

[fatspidr]

I was banging my head against the wall trying to get this to work. I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 and Eclipse Indigo. I couldn't get the emulator connected the way it should. Then I read Strinder's blog post about having to change the url from 127.0.1.1:8888 to 10.0.2.2:8888 in the Util.java class. Search Android App Engine Strinder for the relevant info

[GreenyLiveshow]

Android is the best, it is the ambition of Graham Bell :0

[HunMASK]

I'm trying to test the test application, but my app fails to register me and on say hello it says: The client payload version is out of sync with the server.

Can I get a reply with the solution for this problem?

[einc70]

Guys Xavier is french? It s not the fact that being French prone to peeing. Its just the simple fact that french are not good in giving presentations... hahaha...

[cristianocd]

the guy in black wants to pee so bad

[dlawogus844]

Amazing presentation Xavier and Brad! I look forward to experimenting with this :)