QuickBlox Developers (API docs, code samples, SDK):About
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What is Quickblox?
Quickblox is a cloud hosted platform (PaaS) designed to simplify your mobile application development.
Quickblox’s ready-to-go ‘building blocks’ are plugged into mobile apps to add new functionality, reduce development time & cost, add scalability, and quicken time to market – All with minimal development effort.
Upgrade new & existing apps with social and interactive functions.
Quickblox ready-to-go Modules include:
- Users
- Location
- Ratings
- Content & Storage
- Chat
- Messaging
Quickblox is already integrated with the leading providers of mobile billing, advertising & analytics for one stop shopping.
We empower developers and app producers to make great apps that customers love.
HOW IT WORKS
Quickblox is a set of ready-to-go server side modules.
You can implement as many or few modules as you like in different combinations. The important thing is to add the modules to deliver value to your customers and interactivity
Location
- Add location plug in to your app using google maps, augmented reality
- See/show people on the map
- See/show places on the map
- Online/offline markers
- History of movements
- Provide Check-ins
- Easily integrated in other modules
Content
- Cloud based app Content Management System (CMS)
- CMS editor (easily manage text and rich media content within your apps – No need to constantly republish with every change!)
- Assets Library (on-demand file store and retrieval)
- Smart Caching (efficient data transfer and updates)
- Inbuilt Download/Streaming content functionality
- Integration with existing Ads networks
- Content Import/Export
- Asset Storage and Backups
Users
- User Data and profiles management combined with 3rd party integrations (Facebook, Twitter) to allow users to virally share your app with their social graph
- Authentication
- Identification
- Compatible with Facebook
- Additional data/custom fields supported (photos/avatars, user profiles info)
- Unique IDs, data mining across modules
Chat
- Add live chat functions to your app by plugging in our full featured chat module. Fast. Firewall friendly. Robust & Secure
- White-labeled to your brand & user base
- Chat / IM solution with private and group chat functions
- In session peer to peer file sharing & integration with Content module allowing users to send photos, videos, and content with one another
- Integrated with User module, Facebook & Twitter – for viral sharing
- Integration with Messaging module for push notification, alerts & communication outside the session & offline support
- Integrates with Location allowing users to locate one another, view messages by location, send location as attachment
- Integrates with Ratings Module
Messaging
- Send messages to your user base even when your app is closed / inactive.
- Create a call to action.
- Deliver alerts, updates, scores, news and other information.
- Send alarms & reminders.
- Update your customers about events, promotions and sales opportunities. Our service deals with APPN servers and certificates, you just you just plug and play
- Send pushes (instant, delayed, scheduled recurring)
- Send e-mails
- Rich media pushes
- App deep-linking
- Supports pop-up messages, sounds, badge counters and links into the app
Ratings
- Provides social rating, high scores, leaderboard functionality to your app while still retaining your customer and user experience
- Store and retrieve ratings/high scores values across different apps
- Different authentication methods
- Supports additional custom fields (game modes)
- HTML widget to export data to website/Facebook
- Manage/moderate scores and game modes
WHAT IS FOR YOU?
Implement as many or few QuickBlox modules as you like. You can have them all or pick & choose the specific modules needed for your application.
THE CLOUD
Quickblox platform is cloud hosted offering the following benefits when compared to traditional software hosting and infrastructure.
- Faster time-to-market speeds — Sign up on the web to get your apps live with Quickblox;*Less need for IT support: Quickblox’s SLA provides enterprise customers with defined leves of support and a dedicated help desk;
- Easier upgrades: The latest Quickblox features and functions are available, customizable, and configurable through your own admin panel;
- Better Utilization: Pay for the data your app uses (and minimize unused capacity) combined with the ability to scale your app when needed.
Your app backend is hosted with Amazon (EC2) with a shared or dedicated instance together with security and authentication - so your data is safe. Unlike other ‘black box’ PaaS solutions, you control your servers and have access the source code of the Quickblox system.
Quickblox delivers value to your app ensuring that your apps continue to evolve with time & technology.
BUILD YOUR OWN APP COMMUNITY
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