Sending data to Google App Engine/Datastore

Question

I have an Android app a Simple form consist of some fields, I also have a Web server using Google App Engine in PHP. I was confused by This, should i send the Data from my Android app directly to my webserver, display the data in web server using local and then later on update thus data in datastore or should i send the data from my android app directly to the datastore and display in my webserver? I'm new with this Android and with this Google App Engine/Datastore, I hardly can't find proper Tutorials on Google App Engine using php. I think only few uses this thing.

Any Suggestion well do.

Answer 1

The typical solution would be to provide an API for your app. I'm not familiar with PHP these days but there are bound to be plenty of REST frameworks that will take care of all the JSON conversion for you.

Your API (assuming it's PHP) can then take care of doing any necessary validation, authentication, performing queries, etc, against Datastore. This may help.

If you're familiar with Java (you're writing an Android app) or Python, you can look at Cloud Endpoints.

Answer 2

If you want a PHP library to access Datastore from GAE, check this out:

https://github.com/tomwalder/php-gds