Mobile game / application development often requires different skills than server / enterprise software development. Yet, most today's mobile applications need some kind of backend service to manage data and other tasks. For small application development shops or game studios, it is difficult to maintain an in-house staff for both mobile frontend and data backend applications. That has given rise to specialized backend web services to support mobile apps. Examples include:
* Urban airship is a service to support server tasks related to PUSH notifications and in-app purchases.
* Game Center and OpenFient provide services like game leader board and statistics.
* AWS SDK for iOS and Android covers storing data in the Amazon cloud and utilizing Amazon's messaging services.
It is only a matter of time before someone comes up a *generic* web service that covers several different categories of common tasks mobile applications perform on the server. Parse is one of such services, and it has left beta status. It provides quite a few generic services including cloud data storage, user account management, PUSH notification, social integration, location storage and calculation. Check it out.
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