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 ...
One of my favorite applications for taking screen shots in Ubuntu is Screecloud unfortunately there's no version available for Ubuntu 16.04. Searching in a github wiki, I found a discussion on running Screencloud at our own "risk" in Ubuntu 16.04. If you want to read the thread in github: https://github.com/olav-st/screencloud/issues/204 Steps for installing Screencloud at your own "risk" Ubuntu 16.04 Download libqtmultimediakit1 wget http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/q/qtmobility/libqtmultimediakit1_1.2.0-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i libqtmultimediakit1_1.2.0-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb sudo apt-get install -f We need to modify our source list sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list We add the following line to the end of the file deb http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu wily main universe We install screencloud sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/olav-st/xUbuntu_15.10/ /' >> /...