Migration of the example app backend from Parse

[NicolaGiulietti]

Parse is shutting down. I'm evaluating to migrate a copy of the example app to Backendless (similar to Parse) or to Baasbox (an open source alternative) in order to modify it and test it . Have the creators of this app chosen yet an alternative to Backendless?

[erikandre]

Hi @NicolaGiulietti! Thank you for looking into this! :)

Yes, Backendless does indeed look like a good candidate and as you mention there are several alternatives. We've been busy working on integrating Chateau into our apps for the last few months so that is why we are a bit behind on pushing changes to the open source part of if.

The next push will contain quite a few breaking changes to some of the APIs (mostly related to the Message and Conversation data sources and the use cases which operates on them). After that is done we were planning to start on migrating the example app away from Parse.

Any input or prototyping is very welcome as well as suggestions for other backend alternatives to consider.

Thanks again for contributing!
--Erik