Sharing the Event App
With the Event App, we wanted to introduce you to the process of collecting and retrieving data. Now that you are approaching apps from more of a developer’s perspective, you will probably be aware that every time you enter your email address or other information into an app, that data is getting stored into a database. But, as we mentioned at the beginning of this chapter, Fusion Tables as a database has its limitations. If you were to share the Event App as it is with multiple event organizers, who start using it on different devices, there will be a problem because the app uses a single Fusion Table as the back end. If many people use the app for their different events, all of the data from all the different devices will ...
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