Introduction Designing a mobile app today goes far beyond building a beautiful interface. Native apps — whether for iOS or Android — need secure authentication, user role management, real-time communication with the backend, and scalable infrastructure to support growth. In this post, I’ll walk you through a clean and modern architecture to connect native mobile apps to a robust backend on AWS. The architecture is modular, scalable, and aligned with best practices for security and performance — without relying on overly complex tools. Why it matters: apps today are more than just UI A production-grade mobile app often includes: User login (email, Google, or others), Differentiated access for multiple roles (e.g., user vs admin), Secure token-based communication, A backend capable of handling business logic and data, Data storage, asset management, and scalable APIs, Compliance with Google Play and App Store requirements. All of these require a backend architecture ...
This 2014 and 2015 has been two years I have been involved direct and indirect with the Google Open Source Program. In 2014 I was selected as a student of the GSOC 2014 for the BeagleBoard.org . This 2015, I helped organizing one GSOC Meetup at local University. I'm quite happy of organizing this meetup, because a student was selected. Raul Lopez is the second consecutive Honduran student in being part of this program. I was also a co-mentor for the BeagleBoard.org and continue helping on the development of Bone101.This was a great experience seeing how it works the other part of the story. Besides this, I was organizing the VII Central America Open Source Summit . The Google Open Source Program helped us sponsoring this great event. If you want to read more about this: http://diegoturcios.blogspot.com/2015/12/vii-central-america-free-software-summit.html And finally I'm working right now in the GCI program with Ubuntu . These are the reasons, wh...