Appcelerator Cloud services

The official ACS documentation describes Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS). Simply put, it is a cloud provider that offers around 20 pre-built services that we find in most mobile applications these days. Such a service frees us from developing (and maintaining) our own backend service, thus saving time and effort.

At the time this book was written, ACS provided the following services:

Service	Description
Users	This service enables our users to create unique identification passwords and associate them with their first and last name for display to other users of our application (also used for access and authentication for our application).
Photos	This service enables our users to take photos from within our application, and then store and share them using the Cloud.
Custom Objects and Search	This service creates searchable data fields within our application. Basically, any custom JavaScript object can be stored and then searched depending on certain criteria...