The evolution of Cloud Firebase
Thursday, October 5, 2017 by Richard Harris
These days, if you're developing a mobile or web app, there's a good chance you'll need to sync your data to the cloud. Maybe that's because your users want to share data with their friends for some exciting in-app collaboration, or maybe they simply want to access their data from more than one device.But syncing data between all those devices and the cloud isn't quite ...
The hidden hazards of mobile app development
Wednesday, February 22, 2017 by Burley Kawasaki
The transition from desktop to mobile computing is not a question of if, but when. According to Gartner, within the next five years, 70 percent of software interactions in enterprises will occur on mobile devices. Little wonder, then, that organizations that are just embarking on their mobile app development journeys can often be tempted to assume the voyage will be smo...
Marmalade SDK rescued by GMO Cloud with plans to continue development
Friday, January 6, 2017 by Richard Harris
GMO Cloud - based in Japan has obtained the exclusive license to resell the cross platform SDK “Marmalade,” (previously known as Ideaworks3D Limited) which enables the development of games and apps compiled from a single source code."We are very excited about GMO managing the development and distribution of the Marmalade SDK to enable our customers to continue building ...
Why developers benefit when implementing a cloud backend into apps
Wednesday, October 26, 2016 by Richard Harris
The popularity of enterprise mobile app development has boomed across many industries as businesses have identified mobility as a key agent in their digital transformation efforts. As mobile application demand has risen, app developers are exploring new ways to simplify mobile app development and management. Enter cloud backend.We recently sat down with Ashruti Singh, P...
Built.io Makes MBaaS Customizable With 3.0 Update
Tuesday, August 9, 2016 by Richard Harris
Built.io Backend 3.0 is the latest update to Built.io’s award winning mobile Backend-as-a-Service (MBaaS) product. With this announcement, Built.io Backend becomes the industry’s most flexible enterprise backend for application development, says Matthew Baier, COO.Typical MBaaS requires the application developer to deploy a separate application server for their business...
Being Ready for a MobileFirst Business Strategy
Sunday, July 31, 2016 by Sravish Sridhar
If your business isn’t talking about its mobile strategy yet, it’s only a matter of time. According to 451 Research, 40 percent of companies will prioritize the mobilization of general business apps over the next two years, compared to just mobilizing field service and sales teams. Companies recognize mobility offers huge business benefits, from driving customer satisfa...
Insight Into What the Facebook Announcement About Shutting Down Parse Really Means
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 by Richard Harris
Matthew Baier, COO of Built.io, reached out to us to discuss his thoughts into the recent announcement by Facebook that they are shutting down the Parse development platform. Matthew has 15 years of experience launching and growing a wide range of successful products at Sun Microsystems, Oracle and Salesforce. He co-founded KurbKarma, a TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 Startup B...
Security Brief Protecting Against the OWASP Mobile Top 10
Thursday, January 7, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
There are over 1.6 million Android apps in the Google Play store. Over 1.5 million apps are in the Apple App Store. For mobile app hackers, today’s mobile environment has never offered a more fertile landscape to phish for user information or implant mobile malware. And never in history has more information been available to exploit.To understand how mobile application ...
MBaaS: The Missing Piece in Your Mobile App Strategy
Sunday, December 13, 2015 by Richard Harris
There is not an IT team out there that isn’t feeling the pressure to feed their customers, employees, and other stakeholder’s insatiable appetite for mobile solutions. The problem grows daily and developers have to work smarter and faster to meet the increasing demand.Fortunately, a growing number of services are being introduced within the industry to help alleviate th...
The Unsung Side Of Mobile Apps: Bootstrapping Development With Mobile Backend Services
Monday, December 7, 2015 by Mike Thompson
There’s more to a successful mobile app than a slick UI and cross-platform availability. Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) makes developing compelling, full featured apps faster and easier.When building applications, every budding developer knows the temptation of fixating on the UI at the expense of algorithms, data structures and state management. After al...
Marmalade Offers New BackendasaService for Cross Platform Game Developers
Tuesday, October 20, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Marmalade is now offering Marmalade Game Services offering a new backend service powered by GameSparks, a cross platform Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) provider for games. Through the GameSparks platform and integration via their C++ SDK, Marmalade Game Services allows developers to build the server-side features of their game, offering the ability to connec...
In the Year Ahead, Enterprise Mobility Will Hinge on the Back End
Saturday, September 12, 2015 by Cathal McGloin
This year demand for enterprise mobility has escalated. With increasing volume and sophistication of mobile app projects, organizations must now pay special attention to how they integrate mobile apps with back-end systems in an efficient and affordable way. According to a recent survey of global customers at Red Hat, back-end integration and security ranked at the...
Red Hat Releases Three Different Studies on Mobile Development, Digital Leadership and OpenStack Adoption
Friday, May 29, 2015 by Richard Harris
Red Hat has recently published three different studies focusing on: mobile development trends, OpenStack enterprise adoption, and digital leadership.Mobile Trends SurveyA new mobile trends survey by Red Hat shows that - while mobile plays a role for 73 percent of organizations - nearly half of the respondents identify security (45 percent) and back-end integration(43 pe...
Key Tips for App Development in a Hybrid Cloud Environment
Thursday, May 21, 2015 by Sravish Sridhar
According to ABI Research, the evolving enterprise mobility space will see tremendous growth in new cloud-based solutions as enterprises seek to mobilize quickly and easily. It’s no secret that the cause of this drive towards mobility is the development and deployment of enterprise apps, especially as there is a growing number of devices and device platforms access...
Built.io Adds Realtime Capabilities to its Mobile Backend as a Service (mBaaS)
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 by Richard Harris
Built.io has announced that it has added new capabilities to its mBaaS platform which now offers full support for cross-platform realtime integration.The Built.io backend previously enabled near-realtime communication for web applications and select mobile use cases via its support for WebHooks. This new upgrade introduces a scalable realtime platform specifically optim...
moBack Releases New Enterprise Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS)
Wednesday, May 13, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
moBack has launched new enterprise Mobile Backend-as-a-Service (MBaaS) which offers a self-deployable MBaaS platform that helps developers build and deploy mobile and web apps. moBack is an enterprise-ready mobile backend platform that combines an array of services for development and deployment of applications over the infrastructure of choice at web-scale, while ...
MyAppBuilder Releases Cross Platform Shopping Cart for iOS, Android App and Web Apps
Wednesday, May 6, 2015 by Richard Harris
The new Shopping Cart app released by MyAppBuilder.com offers turnkey solutions to create a cross-platform shopping cart.MyAppBuilder cloud is offered as a Backend as a Service offering a template-based app which allows developers to customize the user interface. The app has cross-platform abilities allowing users to implement a shopping cart for iOS, Android and HTML5 ...
AnyPresence Launches JustAPIs Platform to Build and Deploy RESTful APIs
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
AnyPresence, an enterprise backend-as-a-service (MBaaS) provider, has released a new service called JustAPIs - a solution for building and deploying modern RESTful APIs.JustAPIs is designed to solve the API building challenge from the perspective of the enterprise app developer. The platform provides a quick, easy way to define and deploy APIs with specific signatures (...
The Mobile Developer’s Dilemma: Do It Yourself Storage or Surrender Your Data
Thursday, January 29, 2015 by Brian Taptich
With more than 1,600 new apps debuting daily and almost three million fee-based applications currently available in leading app stores, it’s clear that the mobile app economy has exploded. The staggering success of app-based services such as Uber Technologies and Snapchat are prime examples of the massive opportunity mobile app developers have to build an industry-disru...
New Dedicated built.io Offers Mobile Backend as a Service
Tuesday, August 26, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
A new enterprise mobile backend-as-a-service, dedicated built.io, makes built.io’s platform available to companies that want to deploy their applications and data in a public, private or hybrid cloud environment. Enterprises can access built.io running on VMware vCloud, which allows the ability to host mobile workloads in a cloud environment that they can control.The wa...
Espresso Logic Provides a New Common REST API for MongoDB and SQL Databases
Monday, August 25, 2014 by Richard Harris
Espresso Logic is launching a new common REST API for developing the backend for web and mobile apps. These REST APIs provide real-time access from MongoDB and SQL databases without the need to copy data across sources. Unlike analytical use cases, security and business logic is included and can be used for both read and write operations. To provide a universal API...
Kony Offers New Packaged Mobile App Enterprise Platform
Tuesday, August 19, 2014 by Richard Harris
Kony has launched a new packaged mobile enterprise platform called Kony MobileFabric. The platform packages a mobile application development platform (MADP), mobile backend as a service (MBaaS), Application Programming Interface (API) management, and platform as-a-service (PaaS) infrastructure under a single, open and standards-based mobile platform. Kony MobileFab...
StrongLoop Node.js API Server Released for Developing, Securing and Scaling REST APIs
Thursday, July 31, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
StrongLoop, a provider of solutions for Node.js, has released the StrongLoop API Server to facilitate the ability to develop, deploy, secure and scale REST APIs written in Node. The StrongLoop API Server is a set of components that work together to take an API project from development to production. The impact of the proliferation of mobile devices along with the r...
Kony Releases New Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) for Enterprise App Developement
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Kony has released a new Mobile Backend-as-a-Service (MBaaS), featuring pre-built multi-channel packaged mobile apps and enhancements to the Kony Multi-Channel Experience Cloud.The Kony MBaaS provides an open set of integrated, enterprise-grade cloud services that help companies mobilize business processes including customer relationship management, human resou...
Kii Cloud based Mobile Backend Platform Now Available on AWS Marketplace
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 by Richard Harris
Kii, a mobile backend-as-a-service (MBaaS) provider, has announced their platform’s availability on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace and are now a member of the AWS Partner Network (APN) for enterprises and startup mobile app companies. Developers who are either starting, or currently building their apps, can sign-up for free to access Kii’s full...
Embarcadero RAD Studio XE6 Provides C++ Visual Development Environment for Android
Friday, April 18, 2014 by Richard Harris
Embarcadero Technologies is now offering RAD Studio XE6, a multi-device, natively compiled app development platform for Windows, Android, iOS and Mac.RAD Studio XE6 introduces a C++ visual development environment for Android apps, enabling developers to modernize their Windows applications with VCL enhancements and expansion to mobile, and facilitates the crea...
Kii Introduces A|B Testing, Now Javascript SDK PhoneGap and Titanium Compatible
Saturday, March 15, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Kii has introduced new A/B Testing functionality which is included with all Kii accounts, including the free ones. Developers using Kii can run an experiment and then push the optimal result to all users with one click, without having to update an app.Kii A/B Testing supports multiple variables to provide the ability to test combinations around app experience,...
Espresso Logic Launches New Support to Create RESTful APIs from Stored Procedures to Build Mobile Apps
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Espresso Logic has announced new features that enable developers to quickly create secure RESTful APIs for stored procedures. Using the new functionality, developers can create mobile applications that leverage a company’s investment in stored procedures. The Espresso Designer service exposes stored procedures as REST/JSON resources while the support...
Add Functionality Similar to Skype or FaceTime Into Your Apps With QuickBlox
Thursday, November 21, 2013 by Richard Harris
QuickBlox, a cloud backend (mBaaS) platform has released video calling SDK libraries and code samples for iOS and Android allowing developers and publishers to add functionality similar to Skype or Facetime into their apps. Of backend as a service platforms, QuickBlox is the first to provide the video chat working between iOS and Android. 6,000 app publishers are alread...
