Choosing the Best Backend Provider for your iOS App
by WeeTech Solution Pvt Ltd Best Mobile App Development CompanyWeb backend is the need of
every apps and cannot be avoided. It gives you the access of having a central
database with the help of which it becomes easy for the users to share their
content with each other including photos, messages or reviews of the
restaurants. In older days, it was possible for us to develop all this on our
own as we have existence of certain technologies like Ruby on Rails or PHP. But
things do change with the time and it did here as well. There are certain
challenges being faced which are as follows:
It demands huge time
investment as the development of backend takes a lot of time.
Being a skilled front end
iOS app developer will not make you skilled in back end development too. Both of it
are different aspects and demands time to learn.
We never can identify or
understand the exact nature of iOS apps and App store as we do are not sure if
app usability will be limited or it is going to be huge with millions of users.
Measuring the Scalability while developing the back end is a difficult task to
be done.
To make it easy for you
and sort all your problems, now there are many companies who aids in the
development of back end and offers you with a premade and highly configurable
web backends that can be easily integrated with your apps. These are quite
popular as Backend service or BaaS.
The services Back-End-Provider serves you with are as follows
1) Back end has
got the ability to store your app’s information into a database. For the
representation of your data there are model objects, Baas providers helps you
with an easy way out to take data from object format followed by storing or
retrieving the data from the database.
2) While you
store your plain old data, you may also have to store certain images, large
documents. BaaS providers will allow you to associate a file with custom object
with the help of file storage.
3) BaaS providers
gives you the allowance of creating your own users who can also login through
Facebook or Twitter without creating an account.
4) It will serve
you with the ability of sending a push notification to all your users or to a
selective subset of users.
5) It also serves
you with the authority of tagging your objects with specific location based on
which queries can be made by the users.
There are major players in
the Backend Service Market which are as follows
StackMob - https://stackmob.com/ is called to be one of the most
popular and has got high capability of customization of the offering provided
by BaaS. It allows you to upload your own back end followed by creating of your
own web service.
Parse - www.parse.com is popular for the free plans
offerings. The documentation here is quite simple to understand.
Kinvey - https://www.kinvey.com/ is majorly based on
active users and allows you to have 200 active users for free every month.
Appcelerator Cloud Service - https://www.raywenderlich.com/20482/how-to-choose-the-best-backend-provider-for-your-ios-app-parse-vs-stackmob-vs-appcelerator-cloud-and-more . This is a complete
package of BaaS features and its free plan is the most attractive one. It is
designed in a way that makes it possible to work with Titanium SDK.
Applicasa - http://www.applicasa.com/ - It is almost same as others, but
the only thing which makes it unique is its Drag & Drop functionality which
assists in the creation of your own tables and custom objects.
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