Hey guys,
The quiz app that I’m currently working on will need to be able to connect to a server, send it’s answer choice, and retrieve the results. The basic idea is to be able to have the app display the percentages of the different answer choices that people have chosen. For example, 60% chose choice A, 20% B, etc.
What would be the best way to approach this?
Cheers,
Chris Z.
Search the forum for Coronium. It is still in development and in alpha stage but would fit your needs very well and would get you going with speed.
Hey ksan,
I’ve read through the whole wiki and it looks extremely promising! But I only have a couple of concerns, my understanding is that the we cannot host the server locally, correct? Meaning we have to use Coronium’s servers. And I’m worried about extremely heavy traffic, and hundreds of calls a minute, how would I deal with that? I have absolutely no experience with servers, so this will be a fun project for me hahah ;)
Thank you,
Chris Z.
This is simple. Just make a network request for your server passing the answer selected by the user. The server than responds with a JSON that has the breakdown of how many (or percentage) users selected each answer.
Renato,
How do I go about building the back end? Hahah. Like I said I have no experience with coding servers, but I’m ready to get some! I’ve been looking in to Parse. Any opinions?
Cheers
I never used Parse but I think it may work… about server coding, there are several posts about this in the forum and I think it may also have a post in the Blog about that. Look for Rob Miracle posts.
Coronium is currently under development and once it reaches a level of maturity, its developer @develphant intends to release it open source such that you will be able to take it and run it on your own server. Its main purpose is to make the server interaction very easy. Anyways, its an option. Parse can definitely get you there as well.
Thank you Rento and ksan!
I’ll play around with Parse for now, and I’ll keep my eye on Coronium, it looks like a great project.
Search the forum for Coronium. It is still in development and in alpha stage but would fit your needs very well and would get you going with speed.
Hey ksan,
I’ve read through the whole wiki and it looks extremely promising! But I only have a couple of concerns, my understanding is that the we cannot host the server locally, correct? Meaning we have to use Coronium’s servers. And I’m worried about extremely heavy traffic, and hundreds of calls a minute, how would I deal with that? I have absolutely no experience with servers, so this will be a fun project for me hahah ;)
Thank you,
Chris Z.
This is simple. Just make a network request for your server passing the answer selected by the user. The server than responds with a JSON that has the breakdown of how many (or percentage) users selected each answer.
Renato,
How do I go about building the back end? Hahah. Like I said I have no experience with coding servers, but I’m ready to get some! I’ve been looking in to Parse. Any opinions?
Cheers
I never used Parse but I think it may work… about server coding, there are several posts about this in the forum and I think it may also have a post in the Blog about that. Look for Rob Miracle posts.
Coronium is currently under development and once it reaches a level of maturity, its developer @develphant intends to release it open source such that you will be able to take it and run it on your own server. Its main purpose is to make the server interaction very easy. Anyways, its an option. Parse can definitely get you there as well.
Thank you Rento and ksan!
I’ll play around with Parse for now, and I’ll keep my eye on Coronium, it looks like a great project.