Transition to real production backend

[srcreigh]

@KartikTalwar

Here's a breakdown of the schema as I see it:

/mobile/gcm

• Just a list of strings:

{
  "abc123": "dummy",
  "def456": "dummy", ...
}

• Public writes (set it to disallow deleting though)
• Secret-only reads

/mobile/mentors, /mobile/team, /mobile/updates, /mobile/schedule, /mobile/prizes

• List of objects as specified here
• Public reads
• Secret-only writes

/mobile/test

• just a string:

"DO NOT DELETE; used for testing"

• Secret-reads and writes
• used for testing the scripts

[KartikTalwar]

Does the iOS app have to do something similar for push notifications? cc @sitefeng

[srcreigh]

I can answer: It doesn't. We're using Parse to do iOS notifications, so client code on iOS talks to the Parse API and everything from there on is handled.

[KartikTalwar]

The writes for gcm might get complicated. When do you need this by? We should discuss this over a hangout if possible

[srcreigh]

I can't now, everyone's asleep. It's required for the Android app to be fully functional, but we have a few weeks still to figure that out (since Android publishing takes negligible time)

[KartikTalwar]

Got it. Yeah lets discuss that tomorrow or something then

[srcreigh]

Okay. I'm free all day!