Does Backendless Support Anonymous User Generation

Android
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I’m looking to generate anaonomyous user IDs is this something already built into the API, or something I have to implement myself?

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Hi Solomon,

I am trying to understand how a user ID can be anonymous? If a user identifies himself with an ID, he is no longer anonymous.

Perhaps you mean if Backendless provides a way to access data without a user login? If so, yes, you can definitely do it - this is how the backend is configured by default.

Regards,
Mark

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Hello Mark,

Sorry for the confusion, I believe your second point is closer to what I am thinking. So there is a way to associate a user_id with a particular device without having the user login that persist for that device.

For reference, comparing to see if I can still do something similar to this: https://www.parse.com/docs/android_guide#users-anonymous

Thanks,
Solomon

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Thanks, Solomon. I checked out the link you shared. Sounds like a hack over the design constraints they created for themselves. Things are much easier with Backendless. If you do not need to login a user – just do not login – you can still access the data using the same APIs. Just make sure the tables/records are configured to allow access for the NonAuthenticatedRole. See this for additional details: http://backendless.com/documentation/users/android/users_user_roles.htm

Regards,
Mark