Archive for February 9, 2021
Accessing Realm Data on iOS using Realm Studio
The Realm Mobile Database makes it much faster to develop mobile applications. MongoDB Realm Studio is a desktop GUI that lets you view, manipulate, and import data held within your mobile app’s Realm database.
I’ve just published a new article (Accessing Realm Data on iOS using Realm Studio) which steps through how to track down the locations of your iOS Realm database files, open them in Realm Studio, view the data, and make changes.
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Integrate Your Realm App with Amazon EventBridge
I’ve just co-written an article with AWS stepping through extending a Realm chat app to send messages to a Slack channel using Amazon EventBridge.
Realm makes it easy to develop compelling mobile applications backed by a serverless MongoDB Realm back end and the MongoDB Atlas database service. You can enrich those applications by integrating with AWS’s broad ecosystem of services. In that article, I show you how to configure Realm and AWS to turn Atlas database changes into Amazon EventBridge events โ all without adding a single line of code. Once in EventBridge, you can route events to other services which can act on them.
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Building a Mobile Chat App Using Realm โ Integrating with Realm
I’ve just completed an article on how to integrate Realm and Realm Sync into an iOS chat app. It was timed to coincide with the GA of MongoDB Realm Sync.
Realm is used for both persisting data on the iOS device and synchronizing the data between instances of the mobile app.
The app is currently iOS-only (using SwiftUI), but we plan on building an Android version soon. One of the nice things about Realm Sync is that there’s no extra work needed to map between operating systems and languages when syncing data between iOS and Android.
That data is also synced to MongoDB Atlas and so can be accessed from web or other kinds of apps too.
The data stored and synced covers everything in the app:
Checkout Building a Mobile Chat App Using Realm โ Integrating Realm into Your App for all of the details.
Also, if you want to learn more about how the app was built and ask some questions then I’ll be speaking at a virtual meetup on 17th Feb.
Realm is used for both persisting data on the iOS device and synchronizing the data between instances of the mobile app.
The app is currently iOS-only (using SwiftUI), but we plan on building an Android version soon. One of the nice things about Realm Sync is that there’s no extra work needed to map between operating systems and languages when syncing data between iOS and Android.
That data is also synced to MongoDB Atlas and so can be accessed from web or other kinds of apps too.
The data stored and synced covers everything in the app:
- User profile
- User presence
- Lists of chatrooms and members
- The messages themselves
Checkout Building a Mobile Chat App Using Realm โ Integrating Realm into Your App for all of the details.
Also, if you want to learn more about how the app was built and ask some questions then I’ll be speaking at a virtual meetup on 17th Feb.
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