Google & Kinvey Partnership Provides Backend Services

Google and Kinvey announced its partnership to provide even more Backend-as-a-Service options after the launching its own Mobile Backend Starter. The Mobile Backend Starter provides Android developers with an initial BaaS (Backend-as-a-Service) option. The project is based on Google App Engine, as a "one-click" route for Android apps to access storage services, notifications using Google Cloud Messaging, continuous server queries and Google's authentication and authorization features. Through the partnership with Kinvey, Google will be able to expand the BaaS options layered on to of its Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), App Engine. With the new partnership it will intend to provide access to advanced BaaS feature including security and online-offline caching which will appeal to enterprise developers who need to integrate their organizations’ data and authentication systems into their mobile apps. Through the partnership with Kinvey, Google App Engine will support iOS, Android and HTML 5. According to Annie Bourne of Kinvey the partnership will have an enormous benefits to developers. Annie Bourne was quoted as saying that, "[Formerly] developers had to write the same backend code, over and over, for every mobile app they published. Different developers would write these components in different ways, so recycling code was difficult. So the BaaS industry emerged to create a “middleware for mobile” — unifying the code, making it available to developers in neatly ordered, standardized libraries, that scaled well in the cloud." Annie Bourne stated. For more information regarding the Kinvey and Google Partnership just visit the official Kinvey blog.