Parse.com ANE
Parse.com has a great backend that's really popular with iOS, Android, and other platforms. The API includes methods for data management, file upload, user sign-up/sign-in, Facebook integration, Twitter integration, email notification, scalability, and others. It would make a great ANE.
Initialisation and push notifications have been completed and we have released this ANE. We will be adding more features as they are requested.
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Yeah, we were expecting that to be the first requested addition.
We've started looking into it and it will be the first major update.
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jassa commented
Thanks for adding this one guys. I'd personally love to see the Core data api exposed especially offline syncing.
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Martin commented
Parse push notification is definitely something I'd be interested in.
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jassa commented
If you could include the offline syncing that would be great. Integrating Facebook and Twitter signup/login as outlined at the links below would be really helpful too.
https://parse.com/docs/ios/guide#users-facebook-users
https://parse.com/docs/ios/guide#users-twitter-users -
jassa commented
The REST api definitely offers a heap of functionality but it'd be great to see the native SDKs wrapped up in an ANE.
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sk commented
There's alternative to Parse -- Backendless, which has its own pretty fresh AS3 library https://github.com/Backendless/ActionScriptSDK
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sk commented
AS3 Parse library, though 2 years old https://github.com/parkerkrhoyt/Parse
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The Parse SDKs for iOS and Android are great - yes, however they are so full-featured that it would be an enormous amount of work to replicate all of the functionality and implement it in an ANE.
Parse's REST API is very powerful and can easily be used with AS3 for AIR applications for most of the functionality you would need.
There are some features of the native SDKs we may consider wrapping into an ANE such as push notification support, device registration, localisation etc. It's something we're considering at the moment.
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sk commented
atm, they have RESTful api. You think it's not quite as useful?