couchbase-lite-ios

For native mobile apps, there are also a variety of native libraries that can be used: Couchbase-Lite: https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-ios https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-android/ Cloudant Sync: https://github.com/cloudant/sync-android https://github.com/cloudant/CDTDatastore We've had a good experience with CouchDB with an Android native app, iOS native app, and a web app (using PouchDB with it there).

Ohhh my god, you're totally right. I was looking at this: https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-ios

[Full disclosure: I'm a FT Couchbase mobile developer] Agree 100% -- Parse deserves huge kudos for that move. Ex-Parse customers should definitely check out Couchbase Mobile, which has some functionality overlap with Parse and is already open source with several repos on github: https://github.com/couchbase/sync_gateway https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-ios https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-android At least you won't have to worry about getting "Parsed".

> So with this library we have an append only log of events onto which we persist the events as we receive them You could also use any member of the CouchDB family, such as PouchDB for the browser (even as a lightweight desktop solution), or any member for the mobile [0] [1] [2] [0] https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-net [1] https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-android [2] https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-ios What could be really interesting is another member as a library; I don't think there exists any, but kafkalite could be the beginning of something...

You must be aware that notmuch is only the search backend, and for a full MUA you need frontends. I believe the official one is the Emacs one, so it should be fairly usable. There's also a web one [0] you should be able to play with. Another contender in the space (label- and search-centric) is mu and its ui, mu4e [1]. Something else to have in mind. Now if you want something that works on desktop and mobile, something worth a look would be using SQLite and its built-in full-text search... see how far you can go with that. SQLite is available pretty much everywhere, Android even allows full-text search. Now what you have to do is synchronize SQLite dbs. It "shouldn't" be too hard to remove old emails from the db so you can keep X MB worth of it. You can even shoehorn it into couchbase-lite [3][4] so that sync is automagically taken care o

No it's hard and could lead to sad stories. Say your phone holds a few wallets and a hacker breaks in a starts double spending. That would ruin those wallets and I guess there are simpler cases like you just lost your wallet / forgot your password that might be as troubling. So key handling is totally one of those things I'd love to outsource. Actually please let me outsource as much of of the crypto as possible, I don't want to be inventing things. To that end http://www.w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI/ looks like a reasonable start. I've also been reading http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-jose-cookbook/ and generally trying to get a sense of the least opinionated path I can take. Luckily our iOS lead at Couchbase is experienced writing apps that use cryptographic signing, so he's written up the beginnings of a spec that we'll likely evo

Couchbase Lite is an embedded JSON database with sync capability. It's Apache licensed and available for iOS and Android: https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-ios https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-android

We've been working on sync for a number of years, and have created an open-source lightweight iOS library and backend server. It's still alpha, but it's already in use by a handful of apps in the App Store. Here's an overview: https://github.com/couchbase/mobile The iOS embedded sync database: https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-ios Embedded sync database for Android: https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-android It is designed to sync JSON documents either to the cloud, or from device to device. Everything is open source, so you can run it wherever you want. Our conflict detection and management works by detecting when two users modify the same document, and keeping both versions around. It's up to the application to merge them (or discard one). More about the protocol here: https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-ios/w

There are a lot of alternatives to iCloud. Most of them are just backend-as-a-service, but some of them are really sync engines. Dropbox has been around a long time, and is really popular for iOS file sync. My team at Couchbase has been building mobile NoSQL databases that sync[1], for a number of years now, and our tech is used by a few apps in the app store already.[2] This preamble is to say that I've had plenty of conversations with developers who would be in iCloud's target market but decided not to use it. And the big reason they won't use it has very little to do with the reliability and user experience problems that keep coming up in the critiques of iCloud. The big reason they don't use it, is that they need to control their data. It's one thing for a small game or journaling app to outsource data management to Apple, but an enti

The TouchDB project was started at Couchbase, and since then we have ramped up our investment in mobile sync. The key thing about this project is that its designed to be tiny and boot fast. So it is written in Objective-C (and Java for Android.) We are renaming TouchDB to Couchbase Lite (still 100% open source), and have a bunch more tools for it: Couchbase Lite container for PhoneGap: https://github.com/couchbaselabs/LiteGap Couchbase Lite for iOS: https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-ios Community mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mobile-couchbase We are 100% serious about building the best damn database for mobile. Bonus points that it will seamlessly interact with other projects like PouchDB and friends via the sync protocol originally written as part of Apache CouchDB.

Important topic. Here is an in depth look at touch vs click, how to sprite images, etc http://maxogden.com/fast-webview-applications.html Also I think local data and avoiding network round trips is key to reliable consistent high performance. This is why we built Couchbase Lite for mobile. https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-ios