This is a theory question more than an implementation question. What, in your opinion, is the best way to create a mobile application that syncs data to a server?
I have been writing an application that has a user sign-in, allows them to create notes and then selectively share them with other users. I have been doing this with a Rails webapp that returns JSON data to my iOS app. It seems like a lot of overhead for something that so many apps are doing. Is there a better way? How would, or do, you do it?
The option I found that proved to be the easiest and allows you to focus on mobile development while virtually ignoring the data storage element is Parse. I wish I had found this months ago.