Quick Start

You can create your first call to the Oracle Mobile Cloud Service (MCS) platform APIs entirely through the MCS UI.

Prerequisites

Prerequisite	More Information
Obtain a user account.	Manage Subscriptions
Create a mobile backend.	Creating and Populating Mobile Backends in Using Oracle Mobile Cloud Service

Call the Platform APIs

After you log into MCS, your first step towards calling a platform API is creating a cloud-based companion to a mobile app called a mobile backend. The mobile backend provides a set of platform APIs that use standard HTTP methods like GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE to provide mobile apps with storage, mobile user management, device notifications, app policies, database access, and analytics reporting.

Using the MCS UI, you can quickly create a mobile backend and add any assets needed by the platform APIs. For example, to test the endpoints of the Storage API, you first create the mobile backend by simply giving it a name and then completing a dialog that enables you to create a storage collection and add data objects to it.

Even though a mobile backend supports a mobile app, you do not need a mobile app, a device emulator, or any external tools to test the platform APIs. Instead, the MCS UI provides an API explorer that enables you to test each endpoint by entering values for the parameters, header fields and the request bodies. This explorer also describes the HTTP response codes within the context of MCS and shows you the returned JSON.