CloudRail Universal API Now Available for Swift Developers

Mannheim, Germany - Integrate multiple APIs via a single API? This is now possible for Swift developers on iOS. The German based startup CloudRail (https://cloudrail.com) extends its API Integration Solution with a Swift library.

CloudRail addresses the increasing problem of handling API integrations for software developers. The goal of the company is to increase the speed to integrate a service into e.g. a smartphone app significantly. Core of the solution is a software library which abstracts over multiple web APIs and bundles them into a single, universal API. For example CloudRail lets developers integrate Cloud Storage providers like Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive via a unified interface. So the function upload() works exactly the same for Dropbox as it does for Google Drive and Box.

“We see developers integrate a whole category of services in a few hours. With traditional methods, we would be talking about weeks”, says Felix Kollmar, co-founder and CEO of CloudRail.

CloudRail currently offers universal APIs for the areas of Cloud Storage, Social Networks, Payment, Points of Interest, SMS and Email. In addition to the abstraction layers, the startup also handles API changes, like what recently happened to the Dropbox API. CloudRail’s solution does the hard work for the developer and updates the integration of the changed API without requiring any code changes within the app itself.

An important fact about the solution is that no data ever passes through a CloudRail server. Therefore the CloudRail solution doesn’t add an additional Single Point of Failure and has no negative implications on performance or security like traditional middleware products. Along with the new Swift version, CloudRail offers solutions for Objective-C, Android, Node.js and Java developers.

CloudRail is free without any limitation on number of apps or integrated APIs. The paid version gives additional access to a central platform to manage and monitor API integrations. Moreover an enterprise model offers special SLAs concerning API updates and Long-Term-Support.

CloudRail’s vision is to create a single universal interface to access all services. Its Universal API gives developers the power to interoperate with any type of cloud provider or smart device faster, cheaper, and more secure than using traditional manual integration methods. Headquartered in Mannheim, Germany and with an office in San Francisco, CA, CloudRail is building the interoperable internet of tomorrow.

Felix Kollmar

CloudRail
licobo GmbH
Julius-Hatry-Str. 1
68163 Mannheim
Germany

Phone: +49 621 48345965
Email: felix@cloudrail.com

www.cloudrail.com

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