Post on 15-May-2015
description
An overview of BaaS and cloud APIs
Taras Filatov, CEO and founder of @QuickBlox taras@quickblox.com
Mobile Backend – Apps and APIs First Meetup
1. Intro: age of Cloud and Socially Enabled apps 2. PlaDorms 3. Data structure 4. Code samples and SDKs 5. Admin panel 6. Pricing / revenue model 7. Unique / strong features
Outline
Age of Cloud and Socially enabled apps Mobile 2.0?
Evolution of the interface 1. Command line UI 2. GUI 3. Touch UI
Evolution of Social
1. Deeper OR creative social APIs Integration (Social Graph, Frictionless sharing etc)
2. Crowd-sourcing 3. User base united (single sign-on, cross-platform communication)
Evolution of technical platform
1. SDK & HTML5 2. Cloud & 3rd party APIs (PaaS / BaaS solutions)
Popular APIs – HighScores / Leaderboards
hTp://www.scoreloop.com/
hTp://www.apple.com/ game-‐center/
hTp://openfeint.com/
Popular APIs - Location
hTp://simplegeo.com/
hTp://www.arcgis.com/home/
www.skyhookwireless.com/localfaves/
developer.pearson.com/apis
Popular APIs – Advertising and Monetisation
hTp://www.inmobi.com/
www.google.com/ads/admob/
hTp://www.smaato.com/
hTp://adfonic.com/
Popular APIs – Push Notifications
hTp://urbanairship.com/
BaaS solutions – “Do everything”
hTp://www.stackmob.com/
hTp://quickblox.com hTps://www.parse.com/
• Unite users Single Sign On, Facebook / TwiTer integraYon
• Engage
Users can Chat, Comment, Play
• Context Suggest local or relevant data – use GeoLocaYon, Foursquare integraYon
• Crowd Source Users create content, can view and Rate the content of each other)
Hardware plaDorms Which plaDorms are covered
• Most cover iOS, Android and Web • No code samples coverage for everything • Small BlackBerry / Windows Phone coverage
Name iOS Android Web Windows Phone
Blackberry
CocoaFish + + + -‐ -‐
Kinvey + + + -‐ -‐
Parse + + + -‐ -‐
Pusher -‐ -‐ + -‐ -‐
Urbain Airship + + -‐ -‐ +
QuickBlox + + + + -‐
PlaDorms
How important is mulH plaIorm for you?
Which plaIorms do you build apps for? Do you think iOS, Android and Web is enough? (or shall Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Bada etc be covered too)
Data Structure and Schemas Universal VS Custom
Pre-‐defined Client-‐defined with Some pre-‐defined modules
• Urban Airship • Pusher • Kinvey • QuickBlox
• StackMob (start making calls or set up
strict CRUD schemas) • Parse (data storage is client defined
Different data structure approaches
Would you prefer: a) strict data schema, turnkey soluHon, more detailed and
extensive for specific use cases
b) construct your own schema
c) both
?
Code samples and SDK API features available
Code samples and SDKs
hTp://quickblox.com/developers/
How important are SDKs and code samples?
Are you comfortable to work directly with REST API ?
Admin panel Techy VS Business oriented
Developer oriented: StackMob
OK: Parse console
Hybrid: QuickBlox
What is important in the admin panel?
Do you want it more techy / developer oriented? Will you give access to your customers?
Pricing / Revenue models Paid VS Ad supported (community based)
Paid / Freemium Community / ad supported
Parse UrbanAirship StackMob Kinvey QuickBlox CocoaFish CloudMine
GREE (OpenFeint) Scoreloop
Paid vs Ad supported
OpenFeint / Scoreloop way
OpenFeint ScoreLoop
Custom UI way
iCombat
Quiz Climber
Star RaYngs
How important is pricing? Paid and 100% custom UI vs Ad supported / own community? Transparency?
Unique / Strong features Features and technologies that are unique to each plaDorm
StackMob: host your HTML apps
Host your own HTML5 apps • Hosted HTML5, don't worry about
where to host your applicaYons • Deep integraYon with GitHub • Build service for creaYng naYve
applicaYons for HTML5 coming soon!
Build your applicaYon end-‐to-‐end on StackMob. The hosted HTML5 soluYon allows you to build robust, data driven applicaYons hosted by StackMob for no addiYonal cost!
Pusher: Web Chat and Web Push Notifications
RealYme Chat Widget that lets you to quickly add chat into your applicaYons.
simple JS library that allows you to quickly add realYme noYficaYons into your applicaYons.
Parse and StackMob: custom data models
Universal / flexible data scheme (both Parse and StackMob: start making calls / strict CRUD, custom server code)
Urban Airship: ideal push notifications
• Push NoYficaYons for iOS, Blackberry, Android (no Web / Windows Phone though)
• Auto extracYon of push cerYficate data from keychain
• Good visual stats
QuickBlox: Chat with Attachments and Push Notifications
• Front-‐end funcYonality:
• 5,000 concurrent chat sessions • 150,000 daily push noYficaYons (offline users receiving new chat messages) • a\achments – users send photos, videos, locaYon – securely stored and retrieved from the cloud
Modules:
Chat Messages
+ +
Users
QuickBlox: Location Chat
Front-‐end funcYonality: Celebrity’s fans can see each other on Google map and chat Technology: • LocaYon based Chat • AuthorizaYon via Facebook
Modules:
+
Location Chat
+
QuickBlox: Augmented Reality Chat
Front-‐end funcYonality: Users can see other users/friends in AR world – looking around through their camera Technology: • LocaYon based Chat • Augmented Reality view • AuthorizaYon via Facebook
Modules:
+
Location Chat
+
Augmented Reality
hTp://quickblox.com/augmented-‐reality-‐chat-‐for-‐mobile-‐applicaYons/
Will you choose an API because of their strong / unique features?
Would you prefer a plaIorm less powerful in specific areas
but covering a broader funcHonality so that you can sHck to one?
Or are you happy to juggle APIs and use whichever fits
best in your project?
www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory/
Lots of APIs
Executive Summary
Продажи
taras@quickblox.com
@tarasfilatov
Discussion
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