Wednesday, June 13th, 2012

Box and Parse: Create Your First Mobile App in Seconds

By , Platform Manager

It’s almost cliché to say that mobile app development is at an all-time high. The Apple App Store alone has seen over 500,000 apps published with billions in revenue generated. The cycle from idea, to design and development to release has shortened substantially while also becoming more lucrative for developers. Apple provides a wealth of tools in Xcode such as Interface Builder which make designing and implementing the front-end of your app a cinch, but there hasn’t yet been a similar offering for building out the backend of your mobile applications. Parse aims to solve that.

Parse abstracts away all of the perils of backend infrastructure and management by providing a simple but powerful SDK and cloud platform that makes scaling your backend as easy as:

// Create a new Parse object
PFObject *post = [PFObject objectWithClassName:@"Post"];
[post setObject:@"Hello World" forKey:@"title"];

Mobile is at the core of what Box does, which is why we’re proud to announce that we’re partnering with Parse to help accelerate mobile app development and innovation in the enterprise. Now whenever you go to your app settings page on Box, you’ll have the option to develop your app using Parse. And Parse isn’t just for mobile anymore, you can now power any website utilizing their platform. Click the link below to get started developing your next great mobile app!

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