Analysis of cloud platforms for the purpose of integration with mobile applications

Diplomska naloga je namenjena primerjavi povezav mobilne aplikacije z različnimi ponudniki storitev v oblaku. Najprej je predstavljenih šest ponudnikov platforme v oblaku. Za vsakega posebej lahko preberemo, kaj ponujajo v brezplačni ponudbi in katere vire lahko koristimo pri plačljivi licenci. Za lažjo primerjavo sta priloženi tudi tabeli. Skupno vsem ponudnikom je, da podpirajo povezavo z aplikacijo, ki je razvita za operacijski sistem Android. Naša aplikacija beleži in prikazuje podatke o raznih dogodkih, ki jih prejemamo prek SMS sporočil. Zaradi velike količine podatkov se le-ti arhivirajo v podatkovne strukture oblaka. Aplikacija omogoča arhiviranje v Googlove ali Microsoftove podatkovne baze, za katere je prikazana tudi praktična uporaba storitev v oblaku. S primerjavo ponudnikov smo pridobili informacije, kaj lahko pričakujemo, ko se odločimo za uporabo oblaka v naših programskih rešitvah. Izkazalo pa se je tudi, da lahko Android aplikacija dodobra izkoristi vire v oblaku.The main purpose of this diploma dissertation is to compare connections of mobile application with different cloud service providers. At the beginning there are represented six providers of cloud platforms. For each of them we could read what is included within free licence and which sources could be used in payable licence. To make a comparison easier there are also two tables. What is common to all providers is that their service could be connected to the application that is made for Android operating system. Our mobile application is making notes and showing different events that come through text messages. Because of the great amount of data, all data is archived in cloud’s data structures. Application enables archiving in Google’s and Microsoft’s databases of which also practical usage is shown. With this comparison we have got information of what we can expect when we decide to use cloud service for our software solutions. We found that Android application could utterly use cloud’s sources