We received a lot of feedback  about the benefits we offer our Basic and Medium customers. The feedback was basically around the fact that we made testing apiOmat more complicated than necessary. We think that our users are right and because of that we increased the amount of “active Users” and the inculded modules for our Basic users. We also increased the amount of modules for our Medium users to unlimited and you will also have the 2 development environments and the Medium SLAs. Just check it out yourself:

    

Our BaaS apiOmat got an update and is now available in version 1.1.

Among bugfixing and performance improvements there are the following changes:

• In the Tools tab of the dashboard you can now find a new feature “Analytics” – It contains statistics e.g. about active members, used disc space and if you have at least professional package than also stats about push messaging and registered users over time
• We implemented disc quota per app. For more details look at the small print in the price overview</li>
• We reviewed our price packages - e.g. the basic package includes now 3 modules and 1500 users per month
• Bugfixing in PHP SDK
• Rolled out mobile version of our landing page
• New android tutorials which explain the usage of Facebook and push messaging

Finally we have our new editorial Video that explains apiOmat in less than 2 minutes. The video has been created by Again Studios. It was great working with them and their boss Ankit. Enjoy it.

Hi all,

we produced a neat little video about the founders of apiOmat, so you can get to know them and the goals for apiOmat better.
The video is originally in german, because it sounds quite funny when we speak english for more than 30 sec, but it has an english subtitle. So feel free to get to know us and our product better.

We from apiomat wrote a python script to migrate your data and schemes from Parse to our apiOmat BaaS.
See below to find a step-by-step guide how to do this.

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Today I am writing as a guest author for apiOmat. I’m René Fischer, iOS Developrer at match2blue. The last six month I was developing in a project called CitKit. In this Project we tried Backend as a Service from apiOmat the first time. There were also three other guys involved in the project: an Android-Developer, a Web-Developer working on a Dashboard and a Project Manager. Th Website citykit.de was done by another company. Projects of that size normally have a backend team and an administrator involved at match2blue. Why didn’t we need them this time?

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In this article I want to write about how we at apiOmat solve the problem with transfering unnecessary data between clients and server. On app development it’s important to think about this, cause of limited data flatrates and “white” areas with no network connection.

To minimize transfered data our REST interface and our mobile client SDKs support both the HTTP header If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match. How this works will be described below.

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So after two long days at the CeBIT we are finally sitting stranded on a station and waiting for the next train after Deutsche Bahn fooled us… Time to write down some impressions…

We arrived at Hannover yesterday in the morning started the day with some brand-new information from Mozillas evangelist Christian Heilmann about Firefox OS. Everything in Mozillas new mobile operating system is based on HTML5. The Javascript code that was shown seemed really simple and cool. We assume mozilla learned from all failures others did before. The question will be if there is enough place for another operating system in this market. Mozilla tries to bring smartphones to people who don’t want to invest so many bucks into highend-Androids or iPhones. The first phone will be available for 150$  told us. And they do not only have the manufactures already they also have contracts with 18 carriers.

The session took place at the moosecon, a new conference that was organized in Hall 17 of the CeBIT. moosecon is The Mobile Operating Sytems Conference at CeBIT. When we saw this conference we decided to submit a session that was luckily accepted. We presented “Creating Backends in minutes with backend as a service” on Wednesday afternoon and the closed area of the conference was quite good filled.

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Well, it happens from time to time that someone (or yourself) messes up data, deletes parts of it or some magic happend over the weekend; whatsoever, you need to restore your old data. Assuming you created backups this is an easy task when creating a self made backend. But what will you do on a backend as a service solution like apiOmat?
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The idea to create a platform that standardizes the backend development of a mobile app arose by a cool beer.

Last year we have done a lot of research. We have invested endless hours of freetime to develop and promote apiOmat.

We talked to developers, early adopters and innovators from the betahaus Berlin over the MobileCamp Dresden and the iPhone DevCon Cologne to the mLove ConFestival in Saxony-Anhalt. The positive feedback from all of these encouraged us to find an investor.

No sooner said than done we are proud to pronounce that we closed our seed-funding round with TGFS, a local venture capital fund in Saxony.