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FAQ Android

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mschoch edited this page May 15, 2012 · 14 revisions

Q: What are all these different sub-projects for?

A: TouchDB is designed to be modular, allowing the application developer to choose the pieces they need and distribute the smallest application possible.

  • TouchDB-Android - This is the core of TouchDB. It is required for all TouchDB applications.
  • TouchDB-Android-Ektorp - This is an adapter that allows you to use the Ektorp API to talk to TouchDB. This is the recommended way for building a native Android application. MOST native applications will use this module.
  • TouchDB-Android-JavaScript - This is a module which allows for compilation/execution of view map/reduce functions written in the JavaScript language. Native applications typically do not require this module as they will implement map/reduce functions in Java. This module enables CouchApp/TouchApp style applications which depend on JavaScript. Use of this module adds approximately 1MB to your application.
  • TouchDB-Android-Listener - This module allows you to start an HTTP server port connected to TouchDB. Native applications typically don't need this module unless they also wish to support peer-to-peer replication. The module is also useful for CouchApp/TouchApp style applications, and for running the original CouchDB test suite.
  • TouchDB-Android-TestApp - This module contains the unit tests and a test application which starts the listener on port 8888 and waits for requests.
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