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App services is a cloud-based data platform that manages objects and aids in the development of mobile client applications. It provides a core set of commonly used social media application objects, including a rich user model, as well as the ability to create new objects and object collections.
App services organizes these objects (or “entities”) in a robust, free-form database, making it easy for you to save, search, and retrieve them and connect applications to service endpoints.
Features include:
- An easy-to-use REST API
- A JSON-optimized user data model with real-time search capabilities
- A pre-built infrastructure that powers user interactions
- A user interface (the developer portal) that lets you manipulate data and is itself an example of how to incorporate App services with JavaScript
User model
App services supplies a sophisticated user framework that allows you to organize users into groups, project teams, departments, or other logical structures. You can easily build social graphs to connect users together. App services streamlines authentication, allowing you to authenticate users via Facebook, Twitter, or other OAuth-enabled services, automatically synchronizing user profiles.
Collections
You can store any type of application data formatted with JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) in the App services infrastructure and immediately perform query or full-text searches on any field. Pre-built entities and entity collections help you accelerate the development of content-rich applications. You can share data with other users, and import, export, and sync your application content with third-party applications.
Messages and activities
App services automate user interaction and communications in the form of activity streams, enabling activities such as status updates, check-ins, comments, or other broadcasts to fellow users. You can deliver activities to connected users to support messaging and notifications.
Data analytics
App services allows you to log all data events generated by an application, in real-time, with the ability to store, search, and analyze at any level of scale. You can perform time-based data analysis from by-the-minute to by-the-month increments. As a result, App services easily powers computation-intensive features such as up-to-the-minute leaderboards, voting, and live audience reaction. At any moment in time, you can let your users see who the top-ranking player is, or vote for their favorite contestant.
More information
To learn more about the capabilities of App services, step through the example in Messagee Example or investigate the
