Native Mobile App Hosting

[Guca]

Hi Guys

I need some help with the following

1. What are the steps to follow when you want to publish an app on google play store?
2. Are native mobile apps hosted like web apps and websites etc? if so which service providers do you guys use to host your native mobile app with?
3. What packages is needed when hosting an app? can the basic entry level package work?

Thanks in Advanced

 

[koeksGHT]

Hi Guys

I need some help with the following

1. What are the steps to follow when you want to publish an app on google play store?
2. Are native mobile apps hosted like web apps and websites etc? if so which service providers do you guys use to host your native mobile app with?
3. What packages is needed when hosting an app? can the basic entry level package work?

Thanks in Advanced

Going to assume you know nothing cause thats what it seems.

1) You register/pay the $15 fee and then upload apk with store listing

2) Native app means it runs on the phone and maybe connects to a web server if it needs data. A web app means it usually loads an iframe of a mobi site with sometimes a SDK to use native phone features with javascript.

3) Entry hosting package would be fine, the same as a website, the more users the better the server needs to be. If the app does nothing server related like user accounts etc(flashlight app) then no server is needed.

For all servers we use Digitalocean with Ubuntu, php,nginx,mysql.

 

[Guca]

Going to assume you know nothing cause thats what it seems.

1) You register/pay the $15 fee and then upload apk with store listing

2) Native app means it runs on the phone and maybe connects to a web server if it needs data. A web app means it usually loads an iframe of a mobi site with sometimes a SDK to use native phone features with javascript.

3) Entry hosting package would be fine, the same as a website, the more users the better the server needs to be. If the app does nothing server related like user accounts etc(flashlight app) then no server is needed.

For all servers we use Digitalocean with Ubuntu, php,nginx,mysql.

Thanks KoeksGHT that was very helpful and yes i completely know nothing about these things hence the lower grade questions

 

[oomjan]

Native would mean its built in Java using the Android SDK. From the development environment, you would export your solution as an APK file. You then upload this file to Google, which then gets distributed to the Play Store. Google essentially hosts the file for you. '

If your using something like Phonegap, you would write your app as a single page web app using HTML and Javascript. They provide a Javascript library that you can use to target the actual phone's hardware. Again this is uploaded and hosted by google. A benefit of Phonegap is you can easily deploy your app to both iOS and Android without touching Java or Objective-C

The only time you need external hosting, is if your app relies on some web service for push notifications or to fetch data etc. This service will need to be hosted by you.