We just published a new product into our Marketplace that enables integration with Stripe. Introducing the Stripe Integration Plugin and its purpose is to handle card payments submissions to Stripe. The plugin runs in Backendless business logic (Cloud Code) and uses Stripe’s app signing and secret keys when communicating with Stripe. Below is a list…
Backendless offers support for the development of custom Amazon Alexa Skills. In this post, we are going to demonstrate how easy it is to create a custom skill using JavaScript. You will learn how to control the dialogue flow between the user and Alexa using Backendless and custom Cloud Code.
We did it! There is a new SDK in the Backendless family of libraries, please welcome the SDK for Amazon Alexa! Let’s get a few basic questions out of the way first: Q: Can I build a custom Amazon Alexa skill without Amazon Lambda? A: Yes, you can! Your custom skill implementation can now run in Backendless. Q:…
Today we will talk about how to monitor the client’s Real-Time Connections in your Angular application. This tutorial continues the guide on how to build Angular apps with Backendless. We recommend you check out the previous article in this series before you continue because we will use the application from the previous post as the…
Great news! Backendless 5 is now released and it’s time to show you some new features we’ve been working on. In this article, we will talk about how to integrate the Backendless Real-Time Database into your Angular application. Meanwhile, you can check out the previous version of our Angular app in this post. In case you haven’t…
Images displayed in your app may be responsible for a large portion of the bandwidth consumed by the device. This has a direct impact on the app’s performance, battery consumption, and the amount of memory the app allocates. As a result, optimizing images can often bring noticeable performance improvements for your app: the fewer bytes…
Suppose your app logs in a user. As a result, the app gets a user-token which uniquely identifies the user’s session with Backendless. If your app uses our SDK for Android, iOS, JS or .NET, the user-token value is managed directly by our libraries. Specifically, it is added to every API call to maintain the session…
Backendless Marketplace is a specialized store for backend functionality. Our vision for the marketplace is to make it a community-driven store for algorithms and API services. We also use the Marketplace for various Backendless”extenders” to help developers to increase the limits of the Backendless Cloud pricing plans. However, most importantly, the Marketplace can be used…
In this article, we will learn how to create QR codes with a custom Backendless API Service. For the sample code reviewed later in the article, we will use Java and the ZXing library (https://github.com/zxing). What is a QR code? A QR code is a computer-generated image with some information encoded in a graphical way….