Q: What is QuickBlox?
A: QuickBlox brings superpowers to your mobile apps! It does so by providing a cloud hosted infrastructure which takes care of all typical server side requirements of apps developer and publishers. The platform consists of APIs, easy to use SDK and code samples along with an admin panel to manage your content and your modules behaviour in your apps.
Q: Why QuickBlox?
A: Making apps is fun. Building server side back end is not always fun. You need to think of API, architecture, stability, scalability, authentication and security. It eats time and costs to build and still usually you would have to go through many iterations of trial and error until you get your perfect API to power your app. Somebody has to maintain, monitor and optimise the cloud hosted infrastructure to ensure everything runs smoothly. So we decided as we need professional APIs anyway — let’s build and maintain a professional cloud hosted platform which can be re-used in thousands of apps by thousands of developers and publishers all over the world, everybody saving time and money, and concentrating on what we love — building apps.
Q: What features does it provide?
A: By functionality, QuickBlox is broken down into 6 modules (Content, Users, Location, Ratings, Messages, Chat). Each module provides you with APIs, assisting specific needs as reflected in module’s names and you may use them as stand-alone modules — read more about specific modules’ functionality on the Modules page. The modules however are merely building blocks while you may invent new features and user experiences by using a combination of them. Example: use Locaton + Chat + Users to allow users see who is nearby and chat to their neighbours over google map.
Find more about such implementations in our Case studies page.
Q: How much does it cost?
A: Check our Pricing page. There is always going to be a free tier as we’re interested to showcase our great features and allow you build great apps without going much out of your pocket. The pricing packages depend on what capacity of the system your apps need, and the costs are very reasonable as you may see.
Q: What about security and stability of my data?
A: The connections are protected by our own secure connection protocol, a modification of OAuth, one of the finest authentication/encription frameworks available nowadays. The system runs either at our cloud hosted AWS servers located in US or, in case with enterprise customers, at your own AWS server. In latter case obviously there is additional security as you own your data and user base.
Currently the system is in BETA stage so 100% uptime and safety of your data is not guaranteed by us but we will do everything to avoid any downtimes and to keep all data safe.
There is a system of automated backups allowing us to restore your data withing few hours if something outstanding happens. Also you may export your data to XML at any time through your back end panel.
Q: How to start using it?
Sign-up nowA: Register your account through the sign-up button below and add at least one application. Go to Wiki and follow the guide on SDK implementation for your desired platform.