Geolocation is one of the core services of Backendless. Using the Geolocation API you can easily add a sense of location to your application. Backendless provides a powerful mechanism for metadata-based searches in a geographic area (rectangle or radius). The latest release of Backendless includes an entirely rewritten Geolocation management interface in the Backendless Console….
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…
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…
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…
This is the first post in a series where we plan to explore Backendless features. We are working to produce quick 2-3 minute videos to demonstrate the advantages and simplicity of the “no-backend” approach with the Backendless backend-as-a-service platform. In the first video we review the process of creating your own backend with Backendless. Additionally,…
We are very happy to announce the new release of the Backendless service. The release is packed with very cool and exciting features as well as bug fixes and improvements. We will be posting detailed information for each new feature, but for now here is a brief overview of what you will find in the…
In this blog post we review the process of setting up and developing an iOS application capable to receive Apple Push Notifications. We also review the functionality of publishing a push notification through Backendless. Creating App ID First we are going to create an App ID for the application which will receive Push Notifications. Login…