The ability to update a user account is a common use-case for user management in applications. Either the users themselves or the admin may need to update user properties. Backendless provides the API for updating user accounts, although app admins/developers can do so using Backendless Console as well.
Based on my research of the space we are in, Backendless is the only mBaaS platform that lets you use SQL queries when searching for data. The geolocation data managed by Backendless is not an exception.
Publish/subscribe messaging has been around for a long time. The concept is rather simple – a program can publish a message to a queue or a topic, while another program subscribes to the queue or the topic to receive published messages. There are a lot of caveats in the model such as conditional delivery, message…
In another article, we wrote about how to save Backendless data objects with related geopoint(s). The data-to-geo relations are bidirectional. That means that just as a data object can reference a geopoint (or more than one) as a relation, a geopoint may reference a data object or a collection of in its metadata as well.
A previous article in this series (registering app users using Backendless API) talks about how to create user accounts. If your application uses the user registration API, odds are you will need to use the Login API as well. The API is rather simple – it requires just two parameters: a value that uniquely identifies…
There are several ways to upload file content to the server: The traditional approach where a physical file from the client environment is uploaded using the API. Creating a remote file with content generated on the client-side. In this article, we will review the first option – uploading a file with the API.
In another article, we demonstrated sample code that shows how to search for Backendless geopoints in a radius. Now we will review the API for searching for geopoints in a rectangular area. The API is very similar to the one for search in radius, except the app must define the “view port” or the rectangular…
In the introductory post, we gave a brief description of the Backendless Geolocation service and wrote how to setup sample geodata. Now that we have a collection of geopoints, let’s look into the API to retrieve these points. Similar to data objects, Backendless returns geopoints using paged data.
Backendless provides a very powerful and easy-to-use API to work with your server-side cache. The API is multi-platform, which means clients written in different languages can exchange data using the centralized server-side cache storage. The caching API can accept any arbitrary object, a primitive value, or an array of objects/primitive values. Additionally, the caching system…