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James Nocentini is the Technical Writer in charge of the documentation for Couchbase Mobile. Previously, he worked as a Developer Advocate and before that as a front-end developer for HouseTrip. He also enjoys writing Android tutorials for raywenderlich.com in his spare time.

Tutorial: from Dropbox Datatore Sync to Couchbase Mobile
Tutorial: from Dropbox Datatore Sync to Couchbase Mobile

The Dropbox Datastore and Sync APIs were recently deprecated. Last week, Chris Anderson wrote a blog post on why you should choose open source projects to solve this really challenging problem. Now it’s time to code! We will start with the...

iOS: Pull to refresh with Couchbase Mobile
iOS: Pull to refresh with Couchbase Mobile

Almost any app out there needs to display a list of information and when it comes to reloading data, users are expecting the pull to refresh feature to be available. Let’s explore how to do that with Sync Gateway and...

Syncing with Core Data
Syncing with Core Data

You've been developing your app with a Core Data stack and now you want to add the cloud component. Prompt the user to login and save all its data to the cloud to make it available on all its devices....

iOS: Background Fetch to sync Hacker News stories
iOS: Background Fetch to sync Hacker News stories

Introduction In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Sync Gateway and Couchbase Lite to sync the Hacker News latest stories to an iOS app. We'll focus specifically on the Background Fetch feature that was added in iOS 7:...

Augment your Sync Function with Roles in Couchbase Sync Gateway
Augment your Sync Function with Roles in Couchbase Sync Gateway

See how to configure the Sync Function to allow authenticated users of such an application to approve, post reviews or assign roles to other users.

Introducing the React Native Couchbase Lite Module
Introducing the React Native Couchbase Lite Module

Recently, we published a series of articles on the topic of using Couchbase Lite in a React Native application. In this tutorial, you’ll take it one step further and use the recommended Couchbase Lite Module for React Native (available as...

Getting Started with React Native Android and Couchbase Lite
Getting Started with React Native Android and Couchbase Lite

Visit the post to learn how to build a simple application to save documents and replicate them to Sync Gateway. Also, check out the core concepts.

Adding Google Sign-In with Node.js to a Couchbase Mobile application
Adding Google Sign-In with Node.js to a Couchbase Mobile application

Learn how to use Google SignIn with Couchbase Mobile to create a delightful experience and synchronize documents per the user ID of the logged in user.

Getting Started with JavaFX and Couchbase Mobile
Getting Started with JavaFX and Couchbase Mobile

JavaFX and Couchbase Mobile is a great combo for creating desktop class applications with rich user interfaces and fast data access. In this tutorial, you will learn the following core concepts: Learn about replication, security and deployment using the TodoLite...

Sync Gateway Webhooks
Sync Gateway Webhooks

We just released Couchbase Mobile 1.1 and with this new version comes many new features. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at Sync Gateway webhooks and think of a few concrete examples for using them. Webhooks Prior to the 1.1...

Displaying a Sync Progress Indicator in an iOS app
Displaying a Sync Progress Indicator in an iOS app

NSProgress is an object in Foundation that represents the completion of some work. That work could be downloading a file, installing an app or something your own application is doing. The NSProgress exists to let you easily report progress in your...

Live Reload with React Native and Sync with Couchbase Mobile
Live Reload with React Native and Sync with Couchbase Mobile

Previously, I wrote a tutorial on getting started with React Native Android and Couchbase Lite. In this short screencast, you will use the sample project of this tutorial to learn the following: How to run the app that was built...