Sharing mobile app data with friends

[Jamie Stuart]

It sounds like you need a backend. I suggest Parse
https://parse.com/
It speaks RESTful http, so access from LiveCode shouldn't be a problem.

Jamie, CMSNISO, EuroTalk

On 16 Jul 2012, at 14:27, Richard Miller <wow at together.net> wrote:

> I'm looking for ideas on how to allow an app to share data between friends. For example, if someone has a picture on their phone they want to share with another, how can this be done elegantly and simply, directly from inside the app? Obviously, they can send it via SMS, but that takes place outside the app. Email can also be used, but that lacks elegance.
> 
> One option would be for the app to maintain a list of the user's friends, perhaps referenced by some phone-specific ID. The app can then send a picture to another by storing the pic on my server under the ID of the friend, which is then retrieved by the friend via the server. Is there any such built-in ID to work from, or do I need to assign ID's?
> 
> Any other ideas on how to accomplish this? I don't want to rely on some external shared app like Facebook or Twitter.
> 
> Thanks.
> Richard Miller
> 
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