Question

I want to develop a application. Say for example on Phone7/iPhone/android, this application shall get data from a server.

My problem is that I dont know where to start. For the first I got a mac mini that I would love to use as the server, but I got no server operating system on it, does this mean I have to develop my own application that runs on the mac that these mobile apps can connect to?

I would love to use my mac as the server, so I later can host my website from this and not the very restricted host I got per day.

I hope you guys can point me in the right direction! 🙂

Answer 1

Your best bet is to create a web service using a technology stack you are most familiar with. You then consume this web service in ANY client application, whether it be a wpf/windows/mobile app or even another web service.

So for eg.

-MySQL
  -PHP
     -returns xml/json
     -accepts POST data, or go fully RESTful if you please.
-Client consumes or interacts with this web service.