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Android

Alex Park
Alex Park
7,567 Points

Android 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 Hedley
Alex Hedley
16,381 Points

Is there a reason you don't want to use parse.com?

Alex Park
Alex Park
7,567 Points

No there isn't a special reason Its just that i would like to know how to do it:)

Alex Hedley
Alex Hedley
16,381 Points

Ah 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
Alex Hedley
16,381 Points

You 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
Alex Park
7,567 Points

Thank you. so without parse i would need to pay for the web hosting I'll try the php course first :)

Alex Hedley
Alex Hedley
16,381 Points

https://github.com/eaigner/DataKit/

DataKit - self hosted Parse.

I've not tried this but found it a while ago.

Alex Park
Alex Park
7,567 Points

I'll try it :) Thank you so much!!

Tony Brackins
Tony Brackins
28,766 Points

The irony of this thread, now that Parse is shutting down, I don't have an account and EVERY tutorial is using parse :/