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Re: Helios

#11

Post by juanbyrge » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 6:32 PM UTC

NICE!!! So much better than parse

Re: Helios

#12

Post by dirtyaura » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 6:49 PM UTC

ryderm wrote: post #3

I havn't done enough iOS to really speak intelligently about it, but this looks like a great place to start without limiting flexibility. Although "an extensible open-source mobile backend framework" seems to say that it also applies to non iOS, it doesn't seem that it does. Is it more suited for iOS, or iOS only?

Many services that Helios provides are either iOS specific backend integrations (Push Notifications & Store Kit transaction verifications) or has client-side components (A/B testing, better client-side networking libraries)

Re: Helios

#13

Post by pasbesoin » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 6:56 PM UTC

Just FYI, Helios Software Solutions in England is the maker of the longstanding and widely distributed TextPad text editor for Windows. In case this would present a potential name conflict. (I don't know -- just mentioning.)

http://www.textpad.com/

http://www.textpad.com/contact/index.html

Re: Helios

#14

Post by dracoli » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 6:57 PM UTC

This is really nice. Huge time saver for apps that only need a basic backend for certain functionalities.

Can this potentially also work for other mobile platforms?

Re: Helios

#15

Post by andrewljohnson » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 6:59 PM UTC

Neat, I already use mattt's CLI tool for interfacing with the Apple dev site: https://github.com/mattt/cupertino

Re: Helios

#16

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 7:05 PM UTC

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Re: Helios

#17

Post by neya » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 7:06 PM UTC

Wow, Thank you SO MUCH!

Admittedly, this is one of the best things that ever happened to open source w.r.t mobile development in the last few months!

Re: Helios

#18

Post by miles_matthias » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 7:08 PM UTC

It's really awesome to see Heroku getting into the mobile BaaS industry. I think they have a lot of expertise that they can lend and I'm even more excited that the project is open source, free, and deployable. Looking forward to using this!

Re: Helios

#19

Post by tamersalama » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 7:09 PM UTC

Can't wait to integrated clients with RubyMotion

Re: Helios

#20

Post by BHSPitMonkey » Tue, Apr 02, 2013, 7:11 PM UTC

pasbesoin wrote: post #13

Just FYI, Helios Software Solutions in England is the maker of the longstanding and widely distributed TextPad text editor for Windows. In case this would present a potential name conflict. (I don't know -- just mentioning.) http://www.textpad.com/ http://www.textpad.com/contact/index.html

I don't get the impression that these projects are at risk of being mentioned in the same scope.