Google extends App Engine for mobile-app back end

To encourage developers to create more mobile applications to run from its cloud services, Google is offering two new or updated frameworks to run the complicated but necessary back-end infrastructure of mobile apps, freeing developers to concentrate on the more innovative parts of their work. Google has released a new collection of hosted tools and libraries for ramping up and running the supporting infrastructure for Android and iOS mobile applications, called Google Cloud Endpoints. The compa...