Googlielmo's blog

Saturday March 23rd I attended an interactive Google Lab @ Codemotion 2013 in Rome held by Alfredo Morresi about the Google Cloud Endpoints. This is a new feature for Google App Engine (GAE). It consists of tools, libraries and capabilities that allow you to generate Endpoints and client libraries from an App Engine backend to simplify client access to that web app. Endpoints makes it easier to create a web backend for web clients and mobile clients such as Android or Apple's iOS. Mobile developers will spare a lot of time and work while developing shared backends for their apps and benefit from all the services and features provided by the GAE infrastructure. The figure below shows the basic Endpoints architecture: The backend is an App Engine application that performs business logic and other functions for Android and iOS clients, as well as JavaScript web clients. The functionality of the backend is made available to clients through Endpoints, which exposes an API that clien...