Cloud Integration with an Android Application

Memory shortage in mobiles has quite become a problem nowadays. Every mobile consumer came across the notification “Not Enough Storage Space”. The aim of this paper is to resolve the mobile memory crisis by establishing a connection between a mobile application and a cloud. This process is not out of the box, most of the new generation mobiles are already providing cloud storage for users; as researchers we are curious to show how those applications work behind. In this paper we developed a simple mobile application that can upload images from local mobiles to cloud storage and can download similar images. This simple application in future can be developed with advanced features that focus on data security and data sharing. Considering features like consumer rate, hands-on experience and services availability related to cloud, in this paper we consider choosing Android Operating System and Amazon Web Services Cloud for demo integration. As a result, in this paper we make use of AWS Cloud services like AWS S3, AWS IAM, and AWS Amplify. Another reason for choosing AWS among other cloud providers is the availability and portability of resources required to implement this paper.