Under the Bridge

Now here’s an interesting idea: Use Google Docs to provide free data sharing in your iPhone app.

In September, my small software company shipped our first iPhone app, a grocery list program called Grocophile. One of the most common requests from our users was the ability to exchange data over the Internet. Greg Robbins of Google’s Mac team suggested that the Google Docs API might be useful, so I jumped in and took a look.

This turned out to be a great way to give our users access to free Internet storage, letting them back up their data and share it across multiple devices…

…  If your app can store and retrieve its data in text, HTML or a spreadsheet, then Google Docs will work well for you. 

That does cover a wide variety of data, indeed. There’s source code here to check out if this sounds like something you’d want to look into!

h/t: iPhoneKicks!