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Mastering DynamoDB

By : Tanmay Deshpande
Book Image

Mastering DynamoDB

By: Tanmay Deshpande

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering DynamoDB
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
8
Useful Libraries and Tools
Index

Chapter 9. Developing Mobile Apps Using DynamoDB

Today, one of the coolest things every developer wants to do is to create their own mobile application, launch it for public access, have it go viral, and then have some big technology firm buy it for billions of dollars, isn't it? Of course! Why not? Today we see that mobile devices are more popular than regular desktops. It would not be an exaggeration if I say, in a decade or so, most of the nonmobile devices would vanish away.

Keeping this in mind, mobile applications are very important in all perspectives. In this chapter, we will see:

  • Why you should choose DynamoDB as a backend to your mobile application

  • What options to implement authentication and authorization it gives

  • How you should perform various operations using the AWS SDK for Android and iOS

Many of you might have already developed an Android or iOS application, for which you would have been using some web server where your application and database would be accessed from. Having a...