For each entry in a given table, Backendless creates a unique objectId property – this is a UUID. In some cases, you may want to have a unique ID based on a whole number. To do this, we will use Backendless Atomic Counters (you can read the documentation about Atomic Counters here). In this article, we will…
Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) is a service that can store a lot of data and provide a full text-based search, along with other cool features. In this article, we’ll show you how to integrate Amazon ES into your Backendless project. Of course, you may be able to accomplish what you’re looking for by using…
We like to think of Backendless as being frontend agnostic. In other words, you can use Backendless for your backend almost regardless of how you build your application’s frontend. As such, it is very easy to use Backendless with Xamarin, an increasingly popular open-source native app builder by Microsoft. You can try out Xamarin for…
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…