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.
Tizen is an open source platform residing within the Linux Foundation. It includes an operating system which can run smartphones, tablets, netbooks, onboard devices in smart cars as well as smart TVs. We wanted to see what it would take to integrate a Tizen app with Backendless because the benefits of such integration would be huge….
Our Data Service supports a very flexible security mechanism for restricting access to objects stored in Backendless. Security permissions apply to users and roles. A permission can either grant or reject an operation for a particular asset. In the context of Data Service, the asset is an object which your app can retrieve, update or…
It is hard to believe January is already over. We will remember this month as one filled with a lot of hard work, implementing cool features and fixing some interesting bugs. All of this came to fruition today since we pushed a new release out of the door. To sum the release up with just…
One of the coolest features included into our November release is support for mobile audio/video conferencing, screen and gesture sharing. This functionality is made possible through our partnership with ShowKit – a mobile SDK for iOS and other environments. Integration with Backendless makes it trivially easy to enable the users of your mobile app to…
How much does it cost? Is it free to use? What can I get for free? What are the limitations? How much will it cost as the application grows? These are all very reasonable questions. When you decide to use a backend-as-a-service system, you should definitely estimate your usage and see what you may end…