Innovative Anonymous Reporting System INTRODUCTION Repo Cyber is an innovative app, which encompasses an ecosystem framework for anonymous reporting. The app allows citizens to anonymously report crimes to law enforcement organizations. It is quite natural for people to feel hesitant to become involved in reporting criminal activities of others. They may be afraid for their...

A 16-Year-Old Entrepreneur Discovers Backendless and Builds A Social Network For Gamers Meet Mudasar Javed, a young entrepreneur from Australia. Mudasar is only 16 years old, however, he already runs his own company called ‘RA1N ENTERTAINMENT’. His parents are really happy about it, but also think that sometimes he spends too much time working and...

Backendless-powered self-guided app for Japantown of Tacoma INTRODUCTION Using Backendless as a primary platform, a Backendless user named Josh created the Tacoma Japantown Walking Tour app, which can be accessed from the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store. Built to facilitate visits to the historic Nihonmachi (Japantown) of Tacoma, WA, this app offers practical, and…

If you have any smart IoT devices in your home or office and tried controlling them with Alexa, you might wonder how it actually works. In this guide, you will learn about building a custom Alexa skill that will let you control a wi-fi enabled light bulb with Alexa. You will be able to turn…

Happy New Year, everyone! Here at Backendless, we hear a lot of cool and interesting stories about people using our technology to build awesome things. Every now and then we come across some truly inspiring ones. Here is a story of Mudasar Javed, a 16 year old developer from Australia who launched a social network…

This post describes the process of developing an API Service in Backendless with JavaScript. You will learn: how configure your development environment include NPM dependencies run the service in the debug mode and test it using the Backendless console deploy the service to Backendless The service you will develop in this guide will provide APIs for…

This is Part 2 of the article about developing an Amazon Alexa skill without any coding. In Part 1, you learned the following: How to create a Codeless API Service responsible for handling Amazon Alexa requests. The service completely removes the need for adding AWS Lambda functions and runs without any cost in the free plan of…

Backendless Pro, the standalone version of Backendless, is now officially released and is available for download. The new release includes the latest version of the Backendless Platform. Version 4, which was originally launched only for the Backendless Cloud product, is a major improvement over the previous version. The version 4 release includes: Completely redesigned Backendless…

Performing a calculation on a group of database objects may be a complex task. For example, to calculate the sum of all orders for a customer would require retrieving all that customer’s orders then iterating over them to calculate the mathematical sum of all amounts. This was yesterday! As of Backendless 4.4.0, you can use aggregate functions…