Our CEO Taras Filatov was one of the speakers along with Dan Murphy from Pearson and Terrence Eden of InMobi.

Dan Murphy from Pearson keeping the crowd warm before the pizza's arrived.

Taras spoke about the Trends and Evolution of API’s and the Services that are available.

Dan spoke about what Pearson’s API’s can offer along with some funny use cases.

Terrence spoke about InMobi’s API’s and how developers can earn a lot of money from ads in apps.

Taras comparing BaaS services for developers

Our next meetup will take place at the end of next month. For more information about the meetup visit here: http://www.meetup.com/Mobile-Backend-Apps-and-APIs/

Thank you to everyone for attending and making it an enjoyable event.

Terrence Eden of InMobi

You can also use this functionality via Admin panel. You have to choose the advanced mode for sending a message via module Messages. In the settings “Subscribers” you can choose users that contain any of specified tags or contain all of specified tags and exclude users that have specified tags and send a message only to the users that have been defined.

Enjoy new features!

We have important information for you – the API address has been changed.

admin.quickblox.com, users.quickblox.com, location.quickblox.com … are not currently available. Now it is only one URL: api.quickblox.com. So please pay attention to this.

You will find relevant APIs to work with users’ tags on: http://wiki.quickblox.com/Users.

To assign a tag on a user via Admin panel you need to refer to the module Users for one of your apps and open “Edit profile” page for a user (see the screenshot below). You can add a tag either by entering its name on the textfield below inscription “Tags” or by choosing a tag from the “Popular tags” list.

Group the users of your app with users’ tags!

The APIs for Apple Push Notifications have been recently updated!

The structure of API became simpler and it’s much easer to send Apple Push Notifications now. Please, see the updated APIs here: http://wiki.quickblox.com/Messages.

Make sure that APIs that you are using are up to date!

Module Ratings allows you to implement online high score tables or leader boards for your game as well as enables star ratings, popularity counters and other for any kind of app.

You can use this module via relevant APIs or via Admin panel. Ratings API support custom fields and various sorting options.

To find relevant APIs for module Ratings, please, refer to: http://wiki.quickblox.com/Ratings.

To get the access to this module via Admin panel you need to sign in to the Admin panel and create an app there. For more information on how to do these, please, refer to the 5 Min Guide (http://wiki.quickblox.com/5_Mins_Guide).

The screenshot of module Ratings in the Admin panel is presented below.

Use module Ratings and let the users of your apps feel thrilling sense of competition!

Somewhere in the solar system you will now be able to find a star that is called QuickBlox.

We are glad to inform you that Android and Windows Phone Push Notifications are now available with the QuickBlox Messages module!

You can send Android and Windows Phone Push Notifications via relevant APIs or via Admin panel.

To find APIs for the Messages module, please, refer to: http://wiki.quickblox.com/Messages

To send Android and WP Push Notifications via Admin panel, please, refer to: https://admin.quickblox.com, sign in, create an app and go to the Messages module for this app.
The screenshot of the “Send” page in the Simple mode is shown on the picture below. In Advanced mode you can set additional parameters for each type of Push Notifications.

Please, feel free to send Android and Windows Phone Push Notifications using the QuickBlox!