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You may already know about some of the benefits of Bluemix, IBM's open platform for developing and deploying mobile and web applications. The many pre-built services in Bluemix make it easy for developers to build and enhance applications. In this article, we'll cover the steps to build an Android application using the MobileData service.
Have you ever gone to the grocery store and forgotten the exact ingredient your spouse needed for that fabulous soufflé recipe? Or the lunchbox dessert the kids had requested for the next day? What if they all could enter their requests into a shared grocery list, and you could receive push notifications alerting you to the updates?
Enter the BlueList application. It’s a simple app that uses Bluemix services and will get you started writing your own (more complex) apps in no time! This article shows you how to start with an Android application and add the MobileData service to store, delete, update, and query objects stored on the cloud. (A future article will show you how to add the Push and Node.js Cloud services to your application so you can get notifications when the grocery list is updated, and so the list can be refreshed on all devices when one of the devices updates the list in some way.)

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