Seven ways the cloud and APIs help mobile app development

[vc_row][vc_column width=”9/12″][vc_column_text]Running your mobile backend on Compute Engine and using REST as the communication protocol between your mobile app and the backend server has several advantages:

• It is the fastest way to move an existing service, running on an on-premises or virtual machine, to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• It gives you full control over your virtual machine and server configuration.
• You can use third-party libraries.
• You can configure an autoscaler to scale the number of virtual machines to meet demand.

The downside to running your service on Compute Engine is that you are responsible for maintaining and updating your server.
This tutorial walks you through building a sample mobile app called Stickynotes. This sample app uses REST to connect to a backend service running on Compute Engine.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/12″][vc_column_text][email-download download_id=”256″ contact_form_id=”84″][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]