Android Studio

The native device code is written in Android Studio.

This is where the interactivity and displaying of data is performed with the user.

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Sublime Text 2*

This is where we write the server-side JavaScript code that runs on top of NodeJS.

We use ExpressJS to expose REST API calls, within them we connect to Cloudant and retrieve the required data.

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*Other editor tools are available

Cloudant

This is where we create the required Databases that contain the data we need to support the Android native application.

Cloudant is a Non-SQL database therefore the data is stored and returned in a JSON format, which makes using the Volley library extremely useful

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