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No clicks, I think the first paragraph covers it:

We are thrilled to announce official support for Android on the StackMob platform. Mobile developers now have a single powerful backend for both their Android and iOS applications. The process of building, deploying and scaling an Android app will be very similar to iOS and it couldn’t be easier to get started..

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Still does not explain what it does.

From your excerpt:

- the platform now supports Android,

- it worked on iOS before too,

- the process on Android is similar to iOS,

- it's easy.

But it still does not answer the question: what it is?

Few more clicks and I found it: you can design REST API, integrates notifications, analytics and social platforms. I guess it has its niche, someone may be interested in this, but hardly most Android developers.

This article sums up with StackMob does nicely: http://www.androidguys.com/2011/10/14/stackmob-offering-andr...

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