I'm in the process of creating an Android app and have realized that I'm going to need to store data for the app in a place where all users have access to it. I have no real experience setting up servers or maintaining them, so I thought I would ask the knowledgeable community here if you guys have any experience with a good cloud service where I could store images and text and allow all users that use my app access to said images and text. Are there any (preferably free) solutions out there or should I just learn how to set up a server for that? Thanks in advance for any help.

Check out Amazon CloudFront:
http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/

It's not free, it's pay as you go. So make sure your app makes money :)

It's relatively cheap. Pricing here:http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/#pricing

Scroll down and look at the list of servers/locations your content will originate from. It's almost instantaneous to most of the world.

I don't think a free solution is the way to go. You don't want the app to break because you hit your quota/limit in 2 days.

I think what you are looking for is just an online storage option correct? This new buzz word 'cloud' just make things more confusing IMO. If you look up online storage, there are dozen of providers out there

The question is which option would work for your app. I just picked up the android SDK a few days ago so I'm still learning and not entirely sure how you can handle the login, upload, download process. So make sure whatever service you use, you are able to login/upload and download to their server through your app.

Dropbox might work

if its going to be that big of an app wouldnt you want a website also?

some android apps like keepass use dropbox. it's a free service so I am not sure how stable it would be moving forward (e.g. they could just get rid of the free version at will).

This is for a class project, so I'm not worried about stability or reliability right now. I guess, the most urgent requirement would be easy implementation in java.

Now that I think about it, security is not an issue either, so a simple HTTP get would probably suffice. It's just easily accessible online storage space that I'm after.

Look up the free usage levels for amazon it should meet your needs especially for a class project