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Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Mobile backends enable you to create connected mobile apps without writing server-side code. Today we are simplifying server-side development for iOS developers with
Mobile Backend Starter for iOS
. With our Mobile Backend and Objective-C client libraries you can:
Store data in the cloud and share between users
Send device-to-device push notifications
Use continuous queries to notify devices of data changes
Authenticate users using Google Accounts
Mobile developer
Ryan Harter
used Mobile Backend Starter to grow his
Hashnote
app usage from 3,000 users to 20,000:
“Mobile Backend Starter allowed me to focus on the Android app, while ensuring that I had an efficient backend. Most importantly, the backend isn't a black box that's intended to be the be all and end all, keeping me locked in. I was able to extend the backend to include Hashnote specific logic, while learning how Google implemented the initial feature set from the open source code.”
The Mobile Backend Starter is a
Google App Engine
application, so you can support hundreds of concurrent users at
no charge
. This source code for the entire app, both the backend as well as the Android and iOS clients, is available on Github, so you are free to explore and add specific customizations if you wish.
Getting Started
You can try out the Mobile Backend Starter on an iPhone or iPad in just a few steps (
further details here
):
1.
Provision your backend on App Engine
2. Download the
iOS client zip file
(or clone from
GitHub repository
)
3. Run the sample on a physical device (note: the sample does not run on the iOS simulator)
You use our framework classes to interact with the deployed backend as if it was local to the device. We incorporated our
recent work
to deliver scalable, reliable push notifications to thousands of iOS devices via the Apple Push Notification Service.
The same set of features exists for both Android and iOS, and the backend manages the platform specifics such as using
Google Cloud Messaging
for Android and APNS for iOS devices. You can follow
these instructions
to set up the backend for Android, or
watch our Google I/O session
.
-Posted by
Stuart Reavley
, Product Manager
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