How To Bring Your App Idea To Life – A Step-By-Step Guide
You’ve just had that lightbulb moment: you’ve got a brilliant app idea – now what? Let’s walk through the process of bringing that app to life, even if you’re not into coding.
How To Choose The Perfect No-Code Platform
The No-Code development space is taking off, with new tools coming available seemingly every day. What that means, however, is that there are many players jumping in that lack staying power.
How to Backup Your Data Tables in Backendless
In this article, we will show you how to write a service that will backup your application data with a time interval you specify. To do this, we will be using Cloud Code, a JavaScript timer, and the console SDK.
How We Store Emojis in Your Database, or Why We Got Rid of the Extended String Data Type
As you may have noticed in our release history, the EXTENDED STRING data type was removed from Backendless Database almost a year ago. To be precise, it was more a merge of the STRING and EXTENDED STRING data than the removal of the latter.
How to Save an Object With Children in a Single API Call
In this article, we will describe how to use the Backendless API to save multiple related records with one primary (parent) record in a table. All related records (children) will be stored in separate tables as a part of the same routine. Examples of this type of requirement might be personnel records tied to a…
Backendless SDK for Android – Make Sure to Pick the Right Version
If you’re starting an Android project with Backendless and import our SDK library from Maven, please pay attention to the version number of the library. We have published a beta version of the 4.0 SDK into Maven central. When referencing Backendless in Android Studio, version 4 is the default one to popup. Unless you’re building with Backendless…
API Call/Minute Limit and How to Avoid It
This is a question we get very often: “How can I avoid rejected API calls when my app generates more calls than allowed by the plan’s limit?” To give you the context of the question – all Backendless plans have a limit of API calls/minute. With the free plan the limit is 300, the Cloud…
Hear Back from Your App Users – Configure the "From" Email Address
The backend for your Backendless app sends out emails for the following events: When a user creates an account for your app When a user requests password recovery When a user logs in for the first time The default email address used by Backendless is develop@backendless.com, which is an automated account – we do not actively…