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What are the best Android BaaS (Backend as a Service) providers?
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Best Android BaaS (Backend as a Service) providers
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Push Notifications
Analytics and Reporting
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Firebase
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Firebase
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Firebase
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Firebase
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Linked to Google Cloud Platform
If you don't have a Google Account, you won't be able to access Google cloud services, including this one.
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One command deploys and rollbacks
The content is deployed immediately through the Firebase CLI. Once it's uploaded, the content is served immediately. If you have made a mistake, you don't need to re-upload a new version, through the Admin dashboard you can easily rollback to a previous version.
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PerseveringEpione's Experience
Vendor lock in.
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Hosted
Firebase locks you in to Google's service; you can't run it on your own servers.
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Google support
Google acquired Firebase in Oct. 2014. This gives Firebase a degree of trustworthiness in their service and future support since they are backed by such a large company.
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No offline sync for Javascript SDK
Offline sync exists for the iOS and Android native SDKs, but not for JavaScript.
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Well documented
The documentation and quick start guides are informative and easy to learn.
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Kinvey
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Kinvey
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Kinvey
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The free plan isn't that good
Kinvey's free plan only includes the first 1000 users for free, 5 million push notifications (which admittedly, is pretty nice) and 2GB of storage.
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Very easy to setup
Setting up a backend for an app with Kinvey is very easy and takes minutes. All you have to do is sign up and through their graphical interface follow all the steps, which boils down to creating tables and identifying the type of data that is being stored. Then you download the library, integrate it with your app and initialize the process with one single line.
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AdventurousHedylogos's Experience
Very expensive. The plans cost $24k/year.
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Costs are eye-wateringly high
The free tier is not that generous and as soon as you trip the paid tier it costs you thousands a month.
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Asynchronous uploading of files
When you want to upload a file, you just create an object and initialize the file upload to the server (this is done asynchronously).
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TrustingJumis's Experience
Too expensive.
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Platform has gone backward since it was acquired by Progress
So often this happens. Once a company loses focus things start to drift. Progress are trying to turn Kinvey into a RADP with a low-code front end re-using the Telerik code. Time will tell if this will work, but so far I'm not impressed.
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Simple and seamless user registration
User registration with Kinvey is pretty good and usually works without any problems. It's also very easy to use, you simply pass the username, password, email, etc. to the required method and register a callback that returns whether the registration was a success or a failure. Same thing is done for login and logout as well.
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Back4App
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Back4App
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Back4App
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Reliable
The platform is reliable allow to scale up the applications running on it.
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Parse framework
Only Parse framework is available now for coding.
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AdventurousHedylogos's Experience
Platform is reliable and have fair price.
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Free plan
Free plans available
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Uses MongoDB for the backend, which is not considered very safe by many
Back4App uses MongoDB as the database where data is stored. Mongo has been known to have issues with data corruption and data loss.
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PreciseMamitu's Experience
Service is reliable and I never had any downtime.
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Open source code
Add custom code to your API (Cloud Code) and have access to the source code
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RespectableMarduk's Experience
Stable and reliable.
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No vendor lock in
The user is not a hostage and can migrate the application to other hosting service whenever they want.
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PerseveringEpione's Experience
Reliable platform.
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Parse migration wizard
Back4app has a Parse migration tool which allow developers to migrate the application in less than 5 minutes
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Push notifications
Engage your users with Push messages
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API integration
Integrate the API with the suitable SDK.
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Visual development
Visually build your API and share with other developers
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Open source
Back4app is an open source BAAS and Backend generator.
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Smooth migration from Parse
Back4App offers a smooth migration for all former Parse users who wish to migrate their data now that Parse has announced that it will stop soon.
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BAAS
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Good documentation
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Couchbase
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No model mapper for Android
Couchbase does not have a model mapper for Android built-in and out of the box, instead you will have to write your own from scratch.
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Open source
Couchbase and Couchbase Mobile are open source and released under the Apache License.
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Ability to make predefined fast queries
With Couchbase you can make "Views" of data, which are practically predefined queries which are fetched with an O(1) algorithm.
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LeanCloud
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LeanCloud
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LeanCloud
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Build better apps, faster
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Kumulos
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Kumulos
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Kumulos
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Good for mobile app development companies
Scales very well and useful console to view all their apps and its fully rebrandable which works great if you want to give the clients you are building apps for access to their own view of how it is performing. The fact that it comes with integrated push notifications and their automated monthly report is also great.
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Weak documentation
In the last year they launched a dedicated Docs site that has made this a lot better. https://docs.kumulos.com/ Prior to that Kumulos was lacking in the documentation department. A lot of things are explained in just a few sentences.
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Specs
Push Notifications:
from $50.00 per app per month.
Analytics and Reporting:
from $50.00 per month per app.
ASO:
from $50.00 per month per app.
Crash Reporting:
from $50.00 per month per app.
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Granular permissions
For companies or large teams of developers, where there are multiple projects being worked on at once, you can choose permissions for any developer and decide who gains access to each app on the backend. Lets you rebrand the system, which works well if you want to give the clients you are building the app for access to their own view of how their app is performing. Also like the fact it comes with the option of integrated push notifications and an automated executive summary report.
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Awesome support - a rarity these days. A support team that answers your questions and you can actually talk to them.
Have found response times to be pretty amazing, usually same day, often within an hour of logging a ticket.
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Multiple Services in one place
Having Crash, Analytics, Push, Content Management, ASO, Data Storage all in one place, from a single SDK
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Linx
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Linx
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Great for fast apps
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SashiDo.io - The Real Parse Alternative
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SashiDo.io - The Real Parse Alternative
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SashiDo.io - The Real Parse Alternative
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Free private GitHub repository
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Very poor customer support
I have been having issues with some Facebook login functionality that is almost definitely server based. Created a ticket and got one response after 6 weeks to try post a patch they used and it's been 4 weeks since I let them know it didn't work. They just seem to ignore emails, very unprofessional.
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Single click file migration
Read more here.
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NodeJS app hosting
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Multi-geo coverage
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Auto-scaling
Provides secure and automated scaling.
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Free migration from any parse server
Without any down time.
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Background jobs
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Webhooks
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Skygear
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Skygear
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Skygear
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Raw data is exportable
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Supports User authentication
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Supports Cloudcode
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Rich SDK support
Skygear has SDKs for iOS, Android, JavaScript.
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Scalable Backend
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Parse
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Abandoned
Parse has been discontinued and will not be available anymore.
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Free plan
Parse offers unlimited API calls (max of 30req/sec), 1 million pushed and analytics for free.
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Parse.com is shutting down
Facebook decided to shut down Parse.com. It will be fully retired on January 28th, 2017.
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Asynchronous uploading of files
When you want to upload a file, you just create an object and initialize the file upload to the server (this is done asynchronously).
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There can be downtimes
There have been several reports that it's not unlikely for Parse to go down several minutes almost every day. This can be very frustrating for both developers and users who are using apps built on Parse.
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Simple and seamless user registration
User registration with Parse is pretty good and usually works without any problems. It's also very easy to use, you simply pass the username, password, email, etc. to the required method and register a callback that returns whether the registration was a success or a failure. Same thing is done for login and logout as well.
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Extremely easy to setup
Setting up a backend for an app with Parse is very easy and takes minutes. All you have to do is sign up and through their graphical interface follow all the steps, which boils down to creating tables and identifying the type of data that is being stored. Then you download the library, integrate it with your app and initialize the process with one single line.
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Great documentation
Parse has excellent documentation. Everything is thoroughly explained and all parts of the documentation are complete. It's actually very helpful for both beginners and advanced users alike.
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Hasura
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Hasura
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Can run almost everywhere
Hasura runs on CoreOS and Docker, so it can run virtually anywhere Docker does.
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