I used Parse a few years ago to serve as a backend for a simple event aggregation app. It was incredibly simple to use and integrate with. I probably spent on the order of ~1hr reading documentation and another 2 hours doing some quick and dirty implementation before having a functioning Android app. It&#x27;s too bad it&#x27;s shutting down, but I can&#x27;t say I didn&#x27;t see this coming after the Facebook aquisition.