Backendless SDK for iOS has received several improvements which increase the portability of our code. As a result, the same library you use for iOS apps can also be used in tvOS and watchOS apps. All the functionality available in our SDK is available in these two environments, including real-time database and real-time messaging. The…
Today we will talk about how to monitor the client’s Real-Time Connections in your Angular application. This tutorial continues the guide on how to build Angular apps with Backendless. We recommend you check out the previous article in this series before you continue because we will use the application from the previous post as the…
Since Backendless does not have native APIs to download files, today we’ll talk about how to implement this function in your Android application. In order to do that, we’ll need to combine the Backendless file listing API and android.app.DownloadManager. There are several alternatives to this approach, but the selected one requires less code to write…
Great news! Backendless 5 is now released and it’s time to show you some new features we’ve been working on. In this article, we will talk about how to integrate the Backendless Real-Time Database into your Angular application. Meanwhile, you can check out the previous version of our Angular app in this post. In case you haven’t…
Images displayed in your app may be responsible for a large portion of the bandwidth consumed by the device. This has a direct impact on the app’s performance, battery consumption, and the amount of memory the app allocates. As a result, optimizing images can often bring noticeable performance improvements for your app: the fewer bytes…
With the release of version 5 of Backendless and introduction of the real-time capabilities the dynamics of the client-server integration will be changing. The real-time functionality should result in a significant reduction of the API calls an application makes. To further reflect the value associated with each pricing plan in Backendless Cloud, we introduced several changes: All…
We are thrilled to announce that Backendless version 5.0 has been released. The Backendless Cloud installation has been updated; all apps run on the new version now. The new release is a major milestone for Backendless as it significantly strengthens our position as a leader in the mobile application development space. The new release delivers…
Suppose your app logs in a user. As a result, the app gets a user-token which uniquely identifies the user’s session with Backendless. If your app uses our SDK for Android, iOS, JS or .NET, the user-token value is managed directly by our libraries. Specifically, it is added to every API call to maintain the session…
Backendless Marketplace is a specialized store for backend functionality. Our vision for the marketplace is to make it a community-driven store for algorithms and API services. We also use the Marketplace for various Backendless”extenders” to help developers to increase the limits of the Backendless Cloud pricing plans. However, most importantly, the Marketplace can be used…