APICloud launches the "100 million yuan profit sharing plan", and the API ecosystem realizes the full integration of mobile development technologies

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As a leading API ecosystem platform service provider in China, APICloud provides the APICloud mobile cloud platform, which can meet the management of the entire mobile life cycle, including APP development, version updates, API cloud service integration, and data operations, in one stop, allowing enterprise customers to "quickly" launch their own Internet businesses within 2 to 3 months.

In early January 2018, APICloud publicly announced that it would launch an ecosystem profit-sharing plan of more than RMB 100 million based on its own “API ecosystem platform” for cloud service providers and developer partners on the platform, so that ecosystem participants around API economy and enterprise customer service can profit from it.

At the same time, the APICloud team released a product that is compatible with the technical specifications of the mini program, an APP UI engine in a pure translation mode similar to React Native technology, which enables APP developers to use simple web mode technology to develop APPs with a truly native experience.

The AI ​​ecosystem is actually similar to the three-layer structure of the cloud, which can be divided into the basic layer, the capability layer, and the application layer. Recently, there is a voice in the market that it is necessary to actively accumulate AI talents at a very high cost. However, APICloud believes that in the three-layer structure of AI, most companies only need to focus on the application layer of AI, that is, to find suitable AI capability service providers and use API interface integration to give their own business the capabilities of AI.

[API Ecosystem Platform's 100 million yuan + profit sharing plan in 2018]

With the rapid development of mobile Internet, more and more enterprises and practitioners are investing in it. The industry changes have led to the emergence of more mobile development technologies. It is particularly important to learn to embrace changes and master cutting-edge technologies! The "Mobile Technology Innovation Conference in the AI ​​Era" jointly organized by APICloud and GeekBang Technology provides a great learning opportunity for the majority of industry professionals. At the conference, 20 AI and mobile technology experts from Intel, IBM, Alibaba, Baidu and other companies made wonderful presentations, and their sharing is driving the future development and transformation of the mobile Internet industry.

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On the day of the conference, Liu Xin, founder and CEO of APICloud, the organizer of the event, announced the "2018 Mobile Development Ecosystem Over 100 Million Yuan Account Sharing Plan". The plan will play a vital role in the development and integration of the API ecosystem established by APICloud; the hundreds of millions of yuan in account sharing is the result of the API ecosystem platform being fully established after years of development, and it also indicates that the nearly 100 mainstream cloud service providers and hundreds of thousands of developers that APICloud cooperates with will face greater market demand. As one of the few Internet companies with the ability to self-sustaining supply, the rise of the API economy has become the winning point for the success of APICloud's business model! APICloud provides "API modular ecological platform based on which helps enterprises quickly deploy Internet services" for corporate customers, and has won the trust and recognition of many well-known companies in the industry, such as Intel, Haier, Spring Airlines, Shanghai Innovation Port, Chlitina, and SAIC Group. More small and medium-sized traditional enterprises are also using the services and technical products of the APICloud platform to achieve rapid APP development and Internet layout.

The entire APICloud ecosystem operates with "speed" as the key core. As the ancient saying goes, "All martial arts in the world are invincible if they are fast." Today, with the rapid development of mobile Internet, market businesses need to seize the initiative through rapid layout and rapid implementation. APICloud has seized the current corporate demand for "speed" and driven the progress of the mobile development industry with its API ecosystem platform and innovative technologies.

[Reuse the code of the mini program to make the simultaneous development of App and mini program more efficient]

As another powerful tool in the APICloud ecosystem to help rapid development, APICloud released a pure translation mode UI engine on the day of the conference;

As we all know, after entering the era of mobile intelligence, Android and iOS have divided the world. However, due to the huge user base and extremely high user stickiness of WeChat, WeChat's official accounts, especially mini-programs, have aroused discussions in the industry. Should we make mini-programs or apps in the future? APICloud gave a firm answer. WeChat mini-programs and apps are not a choice between the two. Instead, we should make good use of their respective advantages and achieve synchronous layout. Mini-programs are used to connect online and offline, as well as user wake-up and notifications. Apps are used to achieve independent business entrances and increase user stickiness and revenue.

It is driven by such market judgment and user demand that the pure translation mode UI engine released by APICloud can integrate mini programs and apps to a great extent. By using pure translation mode compatible technology similar to react native mode, the user interface code developed by mini programs can be directly reused, which can greatly reduce the code workload in app development on the APICloud platform. Since the engine has achieved a full translation technology mode, the experience is basically comparable to that of traditional native development. In addition, for programmers in the field of front-end development, they can write API modules without understanding native development technology, and publish their own developed modules through the APICloud platform, thereby becoming the beneficiaries of APICloud's "Mobile Development Ecosystem Over 100 Million Yuan Account Sharing Plan".

[The combination of AI and API ecological platform, AI ecology is divided into three layers like the cloud]

At this conference, APICloud also clearly divided the AI ​​ecosystem into three layers, especially talking about the direct relationship between AI and API, even though the two are only one letter apart. This is also the clearest stratification of the AI ​​ecosystem in the industry.

The APICloud team believes that in the cloud era, the ecosystem is divided into three layers: IaaS (infrastructure layer represented by Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud), PaaS (capability layer represented by maps, voice recognition, live broadcast, etc.), and SaaS (software application layer represented by salesforce, Funshare, Red Circle Marketing, etc.). The AI ​​ecosystem can also be divided into three layers: the "AI engine basic layer" represented by Torch, Caffe, TensorFlow, etc., the "AI model capability layer" represented by iFlytek, Face++, Tupu image recognition, etc., and the "AI application layer" represented by the application scenarios of each enterprise.

Today, the market believes that AI talents need to be scrambled, and the high personnel costs are like trying to pull chestnuts out of the fire for many companies. Because through the stratification of the AI ​​ecosystem, it is clear that most companies only need to apply AI capabilities. Enterprise CIOs can find suitable API service providers with AI capabilities, and there is no need to recruit any talents who understand TensorFlow and other underlying technologies.

The clear three-tier structure model of AI ecosystem proposed by APICloud at this AI and Mobile Technology Innovation Conference will become an effective guide and industry benchmark for many companies to combine their own businesses with AI capabilities.

【APICloud's API ecosystem platform model has been verified】

Since its establishment in 2014, APICloud has grown from a single mobile development technology platform to a fully integrated mobile development ecosystem with API as its strategic core through its own continuous innovation and development. In the context of today's enterprise mobile informatization, the app customization service provided by APICloud is very different from the crowdsourcing platform. According to Liu Xin, founder and CEO of APICloud, APICloud uses API to build an ecosystem, thereby constructing the upstream and downstream industrial chain of the mobile cloud service market. This complete industrial chain, on the top, is its own constantly innovative mobile development engine that connects API service providers and developers, and on the bottom, it uses the concept of extremely fast app development and the real-time project management system as a link to continuously meet the needs of enterprises for rapid business layout. Entering the API economy era, mobile application development can no longer be understood from a single development language, and the platform-based, modular, and ecological model pioneered by APICloud's API ecological platform will give enterprises a more efficient vitality in the Internet.