Scheduled tasks or background jobs is a common requirement for a lot of applications. Backendless supports this concept through a feature we call Timers. A timer is a form of custom server-side code which runs on a pre-defined schedule. This video demonstrates the process of developing a timer, testing it in the debug mode and…
As an mBaaS platform we frequently say “no server-side coding is required”. This is true for a lot of apps, however, at times it is necessary to shift some application logic to the server-side. The logic may need to alter or extend the default implementation of the core services. Adding custom business logic is not…
Geolocation is one of the core services of Backendless. Using the Geolocation API you can easily add a sense of location to your application. Backendless provides a powerful mechanism for metadata-based searches in a geographic area (rectangle or radius). The latest release of Backendless includes an entirely rewritten Geolocation management interface in the Backendless Console….
We just pushed a new release to our production servers. The release includes multiple new features and a ton of improvements. Below is a summary of what went into the release. There will be a blog post with a video providing an in-depth review of each new feature: Pricing update– our free plannow includes more…
CocoaPods manages library dependencies for your Xcode projects. The dependencies for your projects are specified in a single text file called “Podfile”. CocoaPods resolves dependencies between libraries, fetches necessary code and links it together in an Xcode workspace to build your project. Make sure you have the Cocoapods ruby gem installed your system. If you don’t,…
This article reviews the APIs for working with relational persistent data in Backendless. By the end of the article, you will have a working application which demonstrates various mechanisms for loading related data objects from the backend-as-a-service data store. To avoid any terminology confusion or overlap, let’s define related data as multiple objects referencing one…
The goal of this post is to let you quickly become familiar with Backendless custom business logic feature. At the end of the instructions provided below, you will have a Backendless application with a custom API event handler published into production – that is running on our servers. Using Code Generator Login to Backendless console…
It feels amazing to begin writing this post. I have been waiting for a long time to say it and I finally can – Backendless goes out of Beta! And boy, aren’t we doing it with quite a bang. Over the weekend we pushed a new release with a ton of fixes and some amazing…
Establishing relations between user objects and other entities in an application is a very common use case. This post describes various scenarios and shows sample code using Backendless SDK for Java/Android and Backendless SDK for iOS. Make sure the version of the client libraries are at least 1.5 for Backendless Java/Android and 1.11 for iOS.