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How To Easily Create A Web Backend for Your Apps with Parse - Ray Wenderlich. Learn how to make a simple app with a web back-end made with Parse!

How To Easily Create A Web Backend for Your Apps with Parse - Ray Wenderlich

This is a post by Tutorial Team Member Antonio Martínez, a mobile software developer currently working as an iOS Developer in London. In my previous article, you learned about some of the backend service providers available today and what types of features you can expect from them. Now it’s time to start working with one of them in detail! In this part of the tutorial, you will build an app using the Parse backend service. You will build the same Photo Sharing app from the previous article – including user logins, photo uploads, and a photo wall. To keep the focus on Parse, you’ll begin with a starter project that has the user interface pre-created, but no capability to upload or download any images. Ready to build an app with a web backend, the easy way? First Things First — Creating Your Backend Service Before starting the development of your app, the first step is to create an app in the Parse backend. Git clone Great!

NSHipster. How To Choose the Best Backend Provider for your iOS App: Parse vs Stackmob vs. Appcelerator Cloud and More! Ray Wenderlich. StackMob vs Parse vs Appcelerator Cloud: The fight of the iOS back-end century!

How To Choose the Best Backend Provider for your iOS App: Parse vs Stackmob vs. Appcelerator Cloud and More! Ray Wenderlich

This is a post by Tutorial Team Member Antonio Martínez, a mobile software developer currently working as an iOS Developer in London. It’s quite common for apps to require a web backend. This allows you to have a central database where users can share content with each other, like photos, messages, or restaurant reviews. In the old days, you used to have to develop this all by yourself, using technologies such as Ruby on Rails or PHP (examples in this tutorial and this tutorial). However, there are several challenges with this: Heavy Time Investment. Luckily, these days you no longer have to develop a back-end yourself! These services provide you with a package of backend storage and other functions that can be leveraged from your app, usually with a handy iOS library to make integration nice and easy.

The only problem is there are a great many BaaS providers out there! That is exactly what this article is for! MobileMozaic, a gallery of the very best designed iphone applications. Dribbble - Popular. Tutorials: How To Create Great Looking iOS Apps Even If You Are A Design Noob. I have to admit that when it comes to design, I’m pretty much clueless (and you’re probably saying I can see that by looking at your site — I’m working on it as time permits!).

Tutorials: How To Create Great Looking iOS Apps Even If You Are A Design Noob

Design is just so important in the iPhone and iPad app stores. Let’s face facts there’s a lot of absolutely useless apps in the app store that you would never open more than once unless you were showing them to a friend — that have been massively successful. It is hard to find good tips on how to do this. Most designers seem to do everything so naturally, and will just tell you it takes hours and hours of practice. Few designers can really break the process of design into something that you can comprehend even if you’re a design noob. Jen Gordon has created a great set of tutorials detailing the process of designing good looking apps (looking at her apps, she really knows her stuff just check out some of the apps Jen has designed such as Doodle Bright, Popper, and Farm Friends. The Tutorials 1. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.