I’ve been meaning to write a series of blogs for awhile now which walk through steps to create a client-server application involving an Android client and a Ruby on Rails server.  This is a learning experience for me and will help me out on a couple of ideas I have for an Android application that utilizes a server on the backend to store and process data.

The following features define the application:

• Ruby on Rails Server
  •  Allow for login with username and password
  • Allow user to CRUD projects via REST
  • Allow user to CRUD tasks for a project via REST
  • Allow user to invited other users to project via REST using the new users email
  • Allow user to assign tasks to other users via REST
• Android Client
  • Allow user to login with username and password
  • Allow user to login using quick access once a username and password have been provided
  • UI to CRUD projects
  • UI to CRUD tasks for projects
  • Periodically ask server for new projects and tasks

So that’s the basics, not sure how many posts this will take, or how quickly I will get on it, but it’s a start, and sometimes starting is the hardest part!