Location-based iPhone apps are always going to be hot property in the App Store. Apple designed their iPhone range with GPS capability specifically to power geolocation apps. After all, the whole idea of mobile technology is to help users better connect with their world when they are on the move. By harnessing the geolocation potential of iPhones, you can design a location-based app that helps users better connect with their surrounding environment, no matter where they might find themselves.
Developing a location-based iPhone app is not difficult to achieve. You will obviously need your app coding hat on to develop your X-Code. But once you have built your iPhone app environment all you need to do is find a way to handle your user's geolocation data.
Well okay, those of you who have been there and done that might be saying to your self 'that wasn't easy!' If you ended up having to spend time coding your own backend server to handle your geolocation data, and how that data was used in your app, then I'd agree with you - it was most likely not easy!
There is however a much simpler solution to delivering geolocation 'interactivity' to your iPhone app. Welcome to the world of instant backend server solutions!
A ready-built backend for your location-based app
Instant backend server solutions provide app developers with immense power to get their apps working and delivered to the App Store is super-fast time.
What you get is access to a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solution that enables you to manage your app data in the Cloud. All you have to do is connect your app with a PaaS service like Cocoafish, Kinvey or Parse by entering a couple of lines of code into your app. You can then build your geolocation interactivity by simply loading up the relevant SDK and 'dropping in' the PaaS provider's geolocation API. It's so simple that you can have your backend up and running in less than 20 minutes!
How does it work?
PaaS backend server solutions act as intermediary data management platforms. They basically connect your app to the Web, and to your data stored on the web, whether that be in a secure cloud-based store (Amazon, MongoDB etc.) associated with the PaaS provider, or in a third party data store.
Once you are up and running you can do whatever you like with your data. For example, with your geolocation data, you can
Create Places
Search Places
Show Places (via location information, text information and photos)
Update Places
Delete Places
Query Places
Imagine the flexibility your location-based app will have if it can do all this. You'll have the power to do so much in your app - and do it quickly. If you put your thinking cap on, you can probably come up with an endless supply of fabulous geolocation apps that could make you a lot of money quickly and easily, just by using a PaaS backend server solution!
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