ASAP, Please help

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#1

So I’m making an app for a local community and I would like to display times of events and stuff. As these events will be constantly changing I do not wan’t my users to have to go to the App Store or Google Play Store and manually have to update the app. The events are simple text and I would like the text to be automatically updated when someone opens the app or with a refresh button, how would this be done? I have looked into servers and JSON stuff and it looks promising but I don’t wan’t to pay money to host a server or database. Thanks - cloudprogrammer.

Thanks to everyone who commented but shortly fate I posted this question I figured that I could just put at .json file on my website. I used coffeecup for the hosting (it’s free!) and uploaded the .json file. If you guys could check it out www.cloudprogrammer.coffeecup.com

#2

You can look into cloud database solutions like Parse, I think its free if you don’t have too much stuff. I don’t use it myself, of limited help here.

There is a Corona module: http://forums.coronalabs.com/topic/42191-a-parsecom-module-for-corona-sdk/

#3

Parse is overkill for a simple list of events, with the amount of traffic you are talking about you can just use Amazons S3 service and at that level it would be free.

So just put a json (text) file out on the S3 service (or anywhere on the internet really) and then in your code simply just use network.download and ("local json = require(“json”)) at the top of your file then just say…

local events = self.json.decode(resultfromnetworkdownload)

and you have access everything you just pulled off the internet, no need to go through any extra hoops or include any plugins in your code.

#4

Good point. Could even just drop it in your Dropbox public folder.

#5

You can look into cloud database solutions like Parse, I think its free if you don’t have too much stuff. I don’t use it myself, of limited help here.

There is a Corona module: http://forums.coronalabs.com/topic/42191-a-parsecom-module-for-corona-sdk/

#6

Parse is overkill for a simple list of events, with the amount of traffic you are talking about you can just use Amazons S3 service and at that level it would be free.

So just put a json (text) file out on the S3 service (or anywhere on the internet really) and then in your code simply just use network.download and ("local json = require(“json”)) at the top of your file then just say…

local events = self.json.decode(resultfromnetworkdownload)

and you have access everything you just pulled off the internet, no need to go through any extra hoops or include any plugins in your code.

#7

Good point. Could even just drop it in your Dropbox public folder.