FileMaker Cloud offers an easier, more scalable, and more agile alternative to setting up your own FileMaker Server, albeit at a loss of some PHP and SQL connectivity capabilities. In 2017, cloud deployment is a huge deal.

FileMaker has confirmed that it has no plans to create Android apps. It’s not a big surprise that FileMaker only supports Android with web apps, but it is disappointing.

is an Apple subsidiary, it is no surprise that the FileMaker Platform now has good support for iPads and iPhones with the FileMaker Go app. In 2017, desktop apps are more or less passé, and websites are losing ground to mobile apps. In more recent years, those apps started moving to the web. The image below shows our InvoicerRS invoicing database running without modification on an iPad.Not so many years ago, departments tended to run FileMaker database applications on desktops. Although databases can be opened in FileMaker Go without modification, the nature of these mobile devices demands some thought is put in to the user interface. It is essential that databases are designed around the IOS interface and optimised for the iPhone or iPad screen sizes. Stand alone databases can subsequently be synchronised with a networked solution to allow data to be moved to and from a central system. FileMaker Go is designed purely to run FileMaker databases on IOS devices, either in a WiFi or 3G environment (we have a number of stock control solutions we've designed for customers) or as a stand alone applications. For 'offline' portable solutions for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad (not Android) FileMaker Go is an ideal solution.

However, cloud access requires an Internet connection, which isn't always possible. We've covered the cloud use of Citrix Receiver elsewhere, which provides a full working copy of FileMaker on IOS and Android devices. Unusually we have the luxury of 2 methods of running FileMaker databases on iPhones and iPads! E: > FileMaker In The Cloud > How It Works > Cloud Technical > FileMaker > FileMaker Go

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