Backendless For Developers

Getting started with Backendless is easy with our thorough Quick Start Guides, API Documentation, and Resources. We have the tools to help you integrate Backendless into the most common client-side languages on the market.

UI Builder JavaScript Flutter Android iOS .NET REST Codeless Cloud Code

UI Builder

UI Builder is a no-code, drag-and-drop interface for building the frontend of your app or website. Whether your application is intended for mobile, web, or both, you can design for all platforms. UI Builder integrates seamlessly with your Backendless backend. We have created video tutorials to help you navigate the many features of UI Builder, including components, Codeless logic, and database integration.
Codeless Programming
Components
Database Integration
Demo
How To

JavaScript

JavaScript applications can use Backendless with the APIs available in the Backendless SDK for JavaScript. The SDK can be used in client-side applications built with plain JS or with a JS-based framework such as React, ReactNative and Angular. Additionally, the SDK can also be used in Node.js applications or in Cloud Code deployed to Backendless servers.
Quick Start Guides
Documentation
Resources

Flutter

Backendless provides complete support for Flutter applications with our SDK for Flutter. The SDK supports both Android and iOS build targets and implements all available Backendless APIs.
Quick Start Guides
Documentation
Resources

Android

Backendless provides complete support for Android and Java applications with our SDK for Android/Java. The SDK implements all available APIs and comes with thorough and detailed documentation.
Quick Start Guides
Documentation
Resources

iOS

Backendless provides complete support for iOS (Swift and Objective-C) applications with our SDKs for iOS. The SDKs implement all available APIs and come with thorough and detailed documentation.
Quick Start Guides
Documentation
Resources

.NET

Backendless provides excellent support for .NET applications via our SDK for .NET. The SDK implements all available APIs and can be used in .NET, .NET Core, ASP.NET, Xamarin and Xamarin Forms.
Quick Start Guides
Documentation
Resources

REST

Backendless provides a complete set of REST APIs for all of the functionality offered by the platform. This includes user management, database functions, sending out push notifications, working with the file repository and geolocation.
Quick Start Guides
Documentation

Codeless

Codeless is a system for creating server code without any programming language knowledge. You can design and implement powerful API and IoT Services and other server-side types of logic with an intuitive graphical interface. Developing server code or business logic can be a daunting task. Codeless makes it a fun and exciting process. With Codeless you do not need to know a programming language and still can create powerful programs and deploy them to Backendless. It is a complete system which includes a graphical logic editor, a help system, a testing facility and extensive documentation with plenty of guides to help you get started.
Quick Start Guides
Documentation
Video Guides

Cloud Code

Backendless Cloud Code is a system designed to allow extensibility and customization of an app backend with custom server-side code. Using Cloud Code developers can override and extend the built-in Backendless services or deploy custom API services. The system supports different types custom business logic: API services, event handlers and timers.
Quick Start Guides
Documentation
Resources

Recipes

Explore all of the powerful functionality that Backendless has to offer with our library of “How To” guides that we like to call Recipes. Each function is a key ingredient in your application’s success.

Cache and Counters API
How to Place and Retrieve Objects From the Server-Side Cache
How to Set Up Cross-Platform, Multi-Type Atomic Counters
How to Check If an Object Exists in Server-Side Cache
Cloud Code
How to Work With Cloud Code (Overview)
How to Use Cloud Code Timers (Overview)
How to Create a Cloud Code Timer in Backendless Console
How to Use CodeRunner – Cloud Code Utility
How to Debug Backendless Timers Locally on a Developer Machine
How to Deploy Cloud Code Timers to Production
How to Use Cloud Code Event Handlers (Overview)
How to Create Server-Side Cloud Code for User Service API With Console
How to Debug Cloud Code Locally Using CodeRunner
How to Deploy Cloud Code Event Handlers to Backendless Servers
How to Use Cloud Code to Handle Data Service API Events
2FA Login Plugin Featuring TOTP
Data Management
How to Create Data Tables Using Backendless Console
How to Define a Data Table Schema in Backendless Console
How to Add Data Objects Using Backendless Console
How to Declare Relations Between Tables (Classes) Using Backendless Console
How to Create Relationships Between Objects Using Backendless Console
How to Create Data Tables, Columns and Relations by Importing CSV Files
How to Use SQL-Based Search for Data Objects in Backendless Console
How to Display Dates in Data Objects in the GMT0 Timezone
How to Validate Data Object Properties With Regular Expressions
How to Assign Column Types During Data Import
How to Use Backendless REST Console to Fetch Your Data
How to Configure the Default Value for a Data Table Column
How to Declare a Relationship Between a Data Table and Geopoint(s)
How to Create Relationships Between Data Objects and Geopoints
How to Create/Save New Data Objects Using REST Console
How to Use REST Console to Delete Objects
How To Add JSON Objects In Backendless Database
Bubble Just Made Data Storage Unaffordable. Now What?
Mastering Backendless Database
Introducing Backendless Visualizations
Database API
How to Save Objects With Relations and Create Dynamic Schema
How to Load Objects From an MBaaS Storage Using Data Retrieval API
How to Efficiently Load Large Data Sets in a Mobile App With Data Paging
How to Load Related Data Objects – The ‘Auto-Load’ Approach
How to Load Related Data Objects – The ‘One-Step/Dynamic’ Approach
How to Load Related Data Objects – The ‘Semi-Lazy’ Approach
How to Load Data Objects From the Server With Sorting
How to Retrieve Database/Table Schema Using API
How to Load the First Object From a Data Table Using API
How to Load the Last Object From a Data Table Using API
How to Delete Persistent Objects Using Data Service API
How to Update Data Objects Using API
How to Declare Minimum Required Properties in Your Data Classes
How to Update an Object’s Related Collections Using API
How to Load Data Objects From the Server With an SQL Query
How to Load Data Objects With Related Geopoints Using API
How to Search Data Objects by Distance From a Location
How to Create/Save New Data Objects Using REST Console
How to Use REST Console to Delete Objects
How to Create Custom Mapping Between Data Tables and Client Classes
How To Add JSON Objects In Backendless Database
How To Create A Database View
How To Transform View Values
How To Aggregate View Values
How To Filter/Add Conditions To View Data
Support For Transaction API For Codeless
Support For Multiple Custom Domains Per App
Mastering Backendless Database
File Storage and API
Backendless File Browser - One Place For All File Management Tasks
How to Upload Files to the Server With the File Upload API
How to Map a Domain Name to Your Backendless File Storage
How to Compress Any Directory in Your File Storage Using Backendless Console
How to Create New Files in File Storage Using Backendless Console’s Inline Text Editor
How to Control Cross-Domain Access for Browser-Based Apps
How to Create Directories in Backendless File Storage
How to Obtain the Public URL for a File in File Storage
How to Download Files From Backendless File Hosting
Support For Multiple Custom Domains Per App
Messaging Service and API
How to Send Email From Your Mobile, Browser, or Desktop App
Intro to Basic Publish/Subscribe Messaging
How to Send Pub/Sub Messages From Backendless Console
How to Use Message Selectors for Conditional Delivery in Pub/Sub Messaging
How to Deliver Conditional Messages With Subtopics
Instant Messaging And Chat App Blueprint
Productivity Tools and Features
How to Generate Client Code Based on Defined Tables
ROI Calculator – How Backendless Can Save You Money
How to Share a Backend Among a Development Team
Experience Backendless Console in the Language of Your Choice
How to Export Application Data (Settings, Data Tables, Geopoints)
How to Add the Backendless Library to Java Projects From Maven
Support for Development, Testing, Staging and Production Environments
How to Migrate an App’s Backend From One Environment to the Next (Dev to Test to Stage)
Admin and Management APIs for Backendless Plus Accounts
What Is API As A Service?
What Is Serverless Computing?
What Is Mobile Backend As A Service (MBaaS)?
How To Run Backendless REST APIs In Postman
Send Professional Emails Every Time With 100 Free Email Templates
Introducing Backendless Visualizations
Security
How to Use Custom API Keys
Free SSL Certificate For Cloud 99 and Scale Plans
2FA Login Plugin Featuring TOTP
Panic Mode in Backendless Enterprise Security
Audit Log in Backendless Enterprise Security
Session Manager in Backendless Enterprise Security
How to Secure Access to a Data Table for a Security Role
How to Define User Roles – An Essential Block to Securing Your App Data
How to Block Access to All Data for Guest Users
How to Assign Roles to Users Using Backendless Console
How to Lockout a User Account Upon Unsuccessful Logins
How to Load Data Objects Belonging to the Logged-In User (Owner Policy)
How to Restrict Access to Files Using Backendless Console
How to Manage a Data Object’s Access Control List (ACL) in Backendless Console
How to Manage a Data Object’s ACL Using API
UI Builder
UI Builder For No-Code Apps And Websites
How to Add Background Images in Your UI Builder App
Free No-Code App Building Masterclass
How To Create A Modal In UI Builder
How To Build A Hamburger Menu In UI Builder
How To Add A “Show Password” Option In UI Builder
Creating A Language Translator With Zapier
Workflow Automation With Backendless And Zapier
Introducing the Backendless Native Mobile App Flutter Shell
Signature Pad Component
Audio Player Component
Badge Component
Leaflet Map Component
Backdrop Spinner Component
Alert Component
Custom HTML Component
Rating Component
Webcam Photo Component
Skeleton Component
Gallery Component
Color Picker Component
Draggable List Component
Simple Modal Component
Copy Button Component
Stepper Component
Transfer List Component
Snackbar Component
Pagination Component
Gauge Chart Component
UI Builder Recipe: Snackbar / Toast
Introducing Backendless Visualizations
User Management and API
How to Register App Users With the User Registration API
How to Deliver a Customizable Welcome Email When a User Registers for Your App
How to Login Registered Users to a Backendless App Using the User Login API
How to Enable or Disable Users of Your Mobile Application
How to Change a User’s Password as an Administrator
How to Require Email Confirmation for User Registration
How to Handle User Logins With the Same User Credentials
Dynamic User Definition With the Registration API
Required User Properties for User Registrations
How to Update a User Account Using User Service API
How to Fetch an Application’s User Objects
How to Disable User Registrations With a Single Click
How to Register/Update a User With Related Data Object(s)
How to Register App Users Manually Using Backendless Console
How to Delete Users via API or Backendless Console
How to Change a User’s Password via API (If the User Can Login)
How to Customize Session Timeouts
How to Customize Messages for Email Address Confirmation (Upon User Registration)
How to Logout the Current User With the User Logout API
How to Change a User’s Password via API If User Cannot Login (Temp Password)
How to Customize ‘Forgot Password’ Email Message
How to Change a User’s Password via API If User Cannot Login (Password Reset)
How to Validate User Properties With Regular Expressions
Secure OAuth 2.0 Login Support
Codeless OAuth API & Email API Attachments
Send An Automated SMS Message When Registering A New User
Backendless User Management Course
2FA Login Plugin Featuring TOTP
Zapier
Creating A Language Translator With Zapier
Send An Automated SMS Message When Registering A New User
Workflow Automation With Backendless And Zapier

Dive Deeper

Alert Component
Alerts are a great way to provide users with confirmation that the actions they are taking in your app are being completed. The Alert component makes it easy to provide this instant feedback.
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Appointment Scheduling & Payment Processing App Blueprint
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Audio Player Component
Audio content is one of the most popular forms of media and entertainment on the internet today. The new Audio Player component lets you easily include audio in your app with just a few clicks.
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2FA Login Plugin Featuring TOTP
The 2FA Login plugin enables applications built with Backendless to provide an authentication option where a user can login using the TOTP (Time-based One Time Password) form of two-factor authentication (2FA).
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Add A Powerful Codeless Backend To Webflow With Backendless
Webflow is a no-code website builder that “empowers designers to build professional, custom websites in a completely visual canvas.” When you integrate a feature-rich Backendless backend with your Webflow frontend, you can make your website into a full-function web app.
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Backend and Real-Time Database For React JS
Backendless offers a simple way to connect frontend components to backend services through our SDKs. With the SDK for JavaScript, developers can get all of the benefits of a Codeless backend and database for the React.js websites and web apps.
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Backend and Real-Time Database For Flutter Web And Mobile
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How To Create a Flutter Chat App With the Backendless SDK
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How To Integrate A FlutterFlow App With A Backendless Backend
FlutterFlow is a low-code mobile app builder utilizing Flutter as its foundation. When you integrate a feature-rich Backendless backend with your FlutterFlow app, you get a visual relational database, user management, bulletproof security, highly-scalable serverless hosting, and much more.
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2FA Login Plugin Featuring TOTP
The 2FA Login plugin enables applications built with Backendless to provide an authentication option where a user can login using the TOTP (Time-based One Time Password) form of two-factor authentication (2FA).
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Backendless Data Collection Tutorial for Java/Android
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Backendless Viewer - Your UI Builder App Live On Mobile
Preview and publish your UI Builder app as a hybrid mobile app for both Android and iOS with the latest update to Backendless Viewer.
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2FA Login Plugin Featuring TOTP
The 2FA Login plugin enables applications built with Backendless to provide an authentication option where a user can login using the TOTP (Time-based One Time Password) form of two-factor authentication (2FA).
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Backendless Data Collection Tutorial for iOS
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Backendless Data Collection Tutorial for iOS (Updated)
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Backendless .NET SDK Has Been Updated
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Building a Xamarin ToDo List with Backendless
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How to Use Aggregate Functions in Backendless
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Backendless User Management Course
User Management is a key component of any application. It is a system for handling user authentication, authorization, and administrative/management functions.
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Build Simple License Manager API Services With JavaScript
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Create Impeccable Docs With API Documentation Tools
API documentation is an important part of any API service. It can be the difference between a successful API and one that languishes in obscurity. Good API documentation can help developers understand how to use your API, while bad API documentation can lead to frustration and confusion.
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2FA Login Plugin Featuring TOTP
The 2FA Login plugin enables applications built with Backendless to provide an authentication option where a user can login using the TOTP (Time-based One Time Password) form of two-factor authentication (2FA).
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Backendless User Management Course
User Management is a key component of any application. It is a system for handling user authentication, authorization, and administrative/management functions.
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Codeless OAuth API & Email API Attachments
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2FA Login Plugin Featuring TOTP
The 2FA Login plugin enables applications built with Backendless to provide an authentication option where a user can login using the TOTP (Time-based One Time Password) form of two-factor authentication (2FA).
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How to Allow API Calls to Data Service from Cloud Code Only
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How to Backup Your Data Tables in Backendless
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