Android Big data

[anotida Maditsha]

I am researching on data intensive mobile apps. The trick question i am having is how android manages large information? Let's say a query returns large information from a remote database. How android manages the data to the client considering limited storage on the phone.

All suggestions are welcome.

thank you

[Les Morgan]

With limited storage, you have to make a couple choices:

if the data is to be durable, keep it all, then you just basically have to keep it all and too bad for pigging the space.

if you just need a viewport, then have a cache that you can scroll in, but don't make the cache very large because you have to hold the connection open for it.

[anotida Maditsha]

Thank you. And does android offers sets of API to handle data. For example the way the data is displayed on the screen? Or compressed?

[Tim Moores]

While modern devices can store GB of data, it's probably not a good idea to to download, process or display that much data on the device. Better to do that on a server, and then download and display only those parts the user wants to see.

Note sure what you mean by "API to handle data" - that obviously depends on the kind if data in question. http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/index.html provides an overview of storage options on the device. The java.util.zip package is available for compression.