We started a new series of video posts with the project codename of “Backendless U”. We plan to discuss “all things Backendless” which include the company, customers, product architecture, features, but most importantly, provide information enabling you to build better apps with our technology. Here’s the first introductory video.
We supported Google Sign in for a while, however, the feature was not properly documented. Until now! The documentation has been updated for Android and iOS SDKs. Using the “Login with Google” function, an app can provide a way for the users to login using their Google credentials. Once a user is authenticated, Backendless creates…
For anyone developing business logic (Cloud Code) in JavaScript, we have put together some suggestions for troubleshooting your deployment. The page is added to the product documentation. One of the new features described in the doc is the ability to redirect console.log messages to Backendless logging. Once your JS code is deployed to production, messages…
Backendless was featured in a report by Gartner entitled “IT Market Clock for Mobile App Development, 2016”.
About a year ago we made a decision to drop the barrier of entry for Backendless Standalone. At the time when we released the free version of Standalone Backendless, we made a bet that users will go for the “enterprise standard” of server redundancy by introducing a second (non-free) instance and thus removing a single…
Backendless is in the 2016 Mobile Development Guide by DZone.
Adding custom server-side logic is one of the most powerful features of Backendless. We are happy to announce that JavaScript with Node.js has been added to the family of server-side languages supported by Backendless. Starting today developers can build custom API services, API event handlers, and timers using JavaScript. See the getting started guide and start building…
Our vision for Backendless Platform is a system that lets anyone run Backendless-powered apps on any device while the backend can be hosted in any environment. The Standalone Backendless is a special packaging of the platform you can install on your own servers. The best part of it is that you can run Standalone Backendless on…
One of the goals we have at Backendless is to make the platform uniformly available for different types of client technologies. The platform is truly cross-platform and it is a matter of time/effort to make it available to a new client environment. Since we already have a super-powerful SDK for JavaScript, creating a bridging technology for…