Earlier this year I wrote about building a sample to demonstrate various APIs of the platform. There is also a post describing the database schema and app’s storyboard. The application is now ready and I will be posting a video tutorial detailing every step of building an app, including the following: Development environment setup User…

I am very excited to report that we have an amazing new release with some very cool functionality ready for you. Among the new features you will find support for video streaming and broadcasting for Android, support for Atomic Counters and Caching API. Additionally, we have revised our pricing to give you more choices and more…

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…

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…

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.

We just published an Android sample application to Google Play. The application demonstrates the usage of various Backendless APIs for some real-world use-case you may be implementing in your app. The application allows anyone to take a picture or use one from the gallery, upload it to the server and associate the picture with a…

Differentiating user behavior in an application by roles is a very common practice. Indeed, as long as you have different workflows in the application, it is likely each workflow would be associated with a specific user role. Take for instance a mobile application to reserve a taxi. One of the user types (roles) is a…