Every Backendless backend includes a file storage space that can be used by your application or can host your web application. The space is managed with the Backendless File Service, a core element of the Backendless platform. The service provides APIs for file upload/download and deletion, manages files/directories permissions, and handles git integration. Backendless Console…

In the introductory post, we gave a brief description of the Backendless Geolocation service and wrote how to setup sample geodata. Now that we have a collection of geopoints, let’s look into the API to retrieve these points. Similar to data objects, Backendless returns geopoints using paged data.

Backendless is not just a mobile backend – it also provides hosting and runtime support for browser-based applications. Indeed, we offer a fully-featured SDK for JavaScript apps.

Backendless provides a very powerful and easy-to-use API to work with your server-side cache. The API is multi-platform, which means clients written in different languages can exchange data using the centralized server-side cache storage. The caching API can accept any arbitrary object, a primitive value, or an array of objects/primitive values. Additionally, the caching system…

Some of our other articles have covered what Backendless Geoservice is, how to populate a Backendless backend with sample data and how to run partial match geo searches. In this post, we will review the API for searching for geopoints in a circular shaped area or radius.

Data objects stored in Backendless Database may have related objects through one-to-one or one-to-many collections. When objects are retrieved on the client-side, these relations are materialized as collections of data in the object’s fields or properties.

If your native language is not English and you use Backendless to develop applications, you more than likely already know about this feature. When you log into Backendless Console, it detects the locale of your computer and switches the user interface to that locale (if it is available).

A user on StackOverflow asked how to load only the data that belongs to the currently logged-in user. This is indeed an interesting and very common use-case. Backendless handles it beautifully and this feature certainly deserves a place among our Recipes.

There are plenty of use cases when mBaaS-powered applications must use a centralized mechanism for incrementing or decrementing a value. There are several approaches for maintaining a counter – some apps use a database, others keep it in the server-side business logic (Cloud Code).