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Alex Park
7,567 PointsAndroid develop without Parse.com
Hi I'm a newbie of android dev. And currently i am following the lessons using Parse.com It's good. helpful so far But i want to run my app independently with parse. Where do i need to start?
Alex Park
7,567 PointsNo there isn't a special reason Its just that i would like to know how to do it:)
Alex Hedley
16,378 PointsAh ok, it's useful to know just parse or equivalents can save a lot of time and effort, all depends what you're building and why.
Good luck :)
3 Answers
Alex Hedley
16,378 PointsYou could buy some web hosting and put a db up there. You would then need to learn a language to connect to that backend to retrieve data. Check out the PHP and SQL courses.
Alex Park
7,567 PointsThank you. so without parse i would need to pay for the web hosting I'll try the php course first :)
Alex Hedley
16,378 Pointshttps://github.com/eaigner/DataKit/
DataKit - self hosted Parse.
I've not tried this but found it a while ago.
Alex Park
7,567 PointsI'll try it :) Thank you so much!!
Tony Brackins
28,236 PointsThe irony of this thread, now that Parse is shutting down, I don't have an account and EVERY tutorial is using parse :/
Alex Hedley
16,378 PointsAlex Hedley
16,378 PointsIs there a reason you don't want to use parse.com?