Jun 19, 2015
Why?
Sinch: instant messaging Parse: user authentication
Bing Translate: translation services
What did you write yourself? !
- listview of users - custom listview for messages
- intents - adding extra message to an intent
- onclick listeners - async tasks
- error handling
Benefits (in my opinion): !
- lets you focus on a mastering basic programming skills while still building
cool features - prototype quickly to validate your
business concept before spending $$$ and time on development
Find APIs & SDKs for your own project: !
ProgrammableWeb PublicAPIs data.gov
API for that apis.io Quora