In a surprise move, Facebook announced shutdown of Parse, a service they acquired in 2013. The company gave developers until January of 2017 to migrate their apps off of Parse. Many developers have been turning to Backendless as a feature-rich alternative that matches Parse’s features and offers new functionality such as Publish/Subscribe messaging, support for…
With the release of Backendless Cloud v4.1.0 we added an amazing new feature called Codeless Programming. Using Codeless anyone can develop in Backendless without any knowledge of a programming language. The environment is fully visual and lets you create API/IoT Services, Backendless API Event Handlers, and Timers. The system can be used to create programs…
We are happy to announce that Backendless 4 has been released out of Beta. It is now the default Backendless environment and all new apps are created in version 4. Now that the Beta is over, we have enabled billing in version 4 and you can choose a pricing plan for your application. This can…
We have had a very successful beta release and received a lot of positive feedback. We would like to thank everyone for your contribution which helped us make the product better than ever. As we are preparing for the GA release of 4.0, there are changes which may affect your apps. Please see the list below: All Github repositories for our…
We are preparing one of the final Beta builds for Backendless 4. The build should be released early in the week of June 19th. We plan to release the service out of beta shortly after that. One of the important changes in the upcoming service update will be the introduction of deployment models. When the…
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We have published an update for the 4.0 deployment of Backendless – 4.0b3. The update includes the following changes: Fixed problem with developer account confirmation via link in email; Fixed “Login with Twitter” for developer accounts; The “Manage” screen in Backendless console rendered blank in Safari; Fixed error with app deletion; Fixed a bug which caused invocation…
It is finally here! Backendless version 4.0 Beta 1 is now available in our Cloud! This is a major release packed with some amazing functionality. A new management console, generated project templates, online server-side code editing, and deployment, AWS lambda integration – these are just some of the new features you will find in version…
It has been a long journey from the early days when the Backendless team sat down to discuss what we wanted to do with the platform to today when we are writing this blog post. The idea for the 4.0 release was started as a uniform vision for a major cleanup of all the issues…