Posted: June 17th, 2013 | Author: Max | Filed under: Features | Tags: features | No Comments »
If you are building a mobile web app in Appery.io, you can instantly host the app (give it a URL). Here is how. When you create an app, the default type is Mobile App (hybrid app with Apache Cordova). To host the app, first switch its type to Mobile Web by clicking on Hosting tab:
Click Change project type to mobile web button. You will now be able to use an Appery.io domain (app_name.app.appery.io) or a custom domain that you already registered.
Click Publish and your app will be published on the URL specified in 2-4 minutes. It’s that simple.
Posted: May 20th, 2013 | Author: Francisco | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Appery.io has always made it quite simple to integrated with backend systems via REST APIs — but what if those systems are behind the firewall and don’t support REST?? Many enterprise apps required access to data that is sitting on a SQL Database or on some business application like SAP or Oracle.
Enter RESTXpress!
With RestXpress enterprises can easily expose databases and business applications securely via REST. Once exposed as REST services, they can easily be integrated into Appery.io apps.
Deployed behind the firewall, RESTXpress comes in two easy-to-install parts. An administrative console (running in a browser) easily sets up enterprise assets as REST services and a run-time gateway presents the enterprise assets as services to the outside world.
Right now, RESTXpress supports databases as assets to be made into REST services. You can use any SQL database with JDBC drivers. This month, we’ll be rolling out SOAP web services as a new type of enterprise asset that can be easily wrapped into a REST service.
And, RESTXpress is free!
You can watch a demo video, download the installer, or join the discussion community…all from one info page.
Posted: May 14th, 2013 | Author: Francisco | Filed under: Events | No Comments »
As many of you know, we formally launched Appery.io at the TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon in New York. We came back from it super stoked about Appery.io and just wanted to share some of our excitement from the event.
Appery.io was the product most widely adopted by developers at the Hackathon! More than 30 teams completed and submitted their projects, and many of them won prizes! This is a TechCrunch record. A distant second was TechCrunch itself — who was promoting its CrunchBase API — with 15 teams.
Over 1,100 developers!
This was TechCrunch’s largest Hackathon to date with over 1,100 developers. Check out the scene in the picture below.
TechCrunch’s Largest Hackathon!
And the Winners Are…
Congratulations to the Bar Power (1st), Career Hound (2nd), and Waterlog (3rd) teams for winning prizes in our contest! We were impressed with the innovation and quality of all the projects built in Appery.io — other Appery.io projects won prizes from other sponsors as well, including prizes from Visa and AT&T!
Team Bar Power and Team Waterlog with Max and Francisco
Team Career Hound
Tons of APIs Used!
Developers loved the large collection of plug-ins in the Appery.io catalog. These plug-ins allow developers to add ready-made connections to popular APIs. APIs used at the Hackathon included Twilio, CrunchBase, Foursquare, AT&T, The New York Times, SendGrid, Weather Underground, SkyDrive, LinkedIn, Pearson, Yammer, Facebook, and ESPN.
Overnight Hacking with 24×7 Support
Tons of developers continued their hacks through the night fueled by the sheer excitement of the event and lots of caffeine! There were so many teams developing on Appery.io that we decided to not sleep that night, so we could provide developers all the help they needed. We had a team of three onsite plus a remote team providing support via Skype. Our support table was the most popular by far, with lines throughout the night.
The Most Popular Table: Ours
We were humbled as 30 teams presented their Appery.io projects on stage to a crowd of over 1,000 influencers. Many thanks to all the developers and designers who participated. We are looking forward to seeing many of your projects turn into real businesses!
You can watch a few of the presentations on our YouTube channel using this playlist. Also, check out more pictures and buzz from the event on Storify.
Posted: May 13th, 2013 | Author: Max | Filed under: Events | Tags: events | No Comments »
Neil Mansilla (Mashery) and Max Katz (Appery.io) will describe the Mashery API management platform and the Appery.io mobile app development and support platform and will explain how they fit together. Max will then demo building two apps in Appery.io using Appery.io plug-ins for Mashery-managed APIs.
When: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM (Timezone: America/Phoenix)
Register now: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/920503433
Posted: May 10th, 2013 | Author: Max | Filed under: New release | Tags: release | No Comments »
As you probably already know we launched Appery.io in April. One of the new things in this release is that our platform has been upgraded to jQuery Mobile version 1.3. You can always check the latest version by going to Project > App settings > External resources tab:
Posted: April 24th, 2013 | Author: Iryna | Filed under: API, Plugin | Tags: API, Plugin | No Comments »
Our new USA Today API Plug-in allows you to read news from different categories offered by USA Today and get information about the latest music, movie, and book reviews. Also, you can find top salaries for different sports leagues. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 24th, 2013 | Author: Iryna | Filed under: API, Plugin | Tags: API, Plugin | No Comments »
This API allows you to interact with the huge CrunchBase database. (What is CrunchBase? CrunchBase is a free database of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit.) To make it easier to use the API to make mobile apps in Appery.io, we created a plug-in with some ready-made services (interfaces) for using the CrunchBase API. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 24th, 2013 | Author: Iryna | Filed under: API, Plugin | Tags: API, Plugin | No Comments »
We’ve just made the NY Times Best Sellers Search API plug-in available. The API allows you to interact with NY Times best seller data. To make it easier to use the API to make mobile apps in Appery.io, we created a plug-in with some ready-made services (interfaces) to use the NY Times API. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 24th, 2013 | Author: Iryna | Filed under: API, Plugin | Tags: API, Plugin | No Comments »
The Wunderground API allows you to receive information about weather conditions, forecasts, historical information about weather, etc. To make it easier to use the API in Appery.io, we created a plug-in with some ready-made services which use the Wunderground API. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 24th, 2013 | Author: Iryna | Filed under: API, Plugin | Tags: API, Plugin | No Comments »
We’ve just made the NY Times Article Search Plug-in available. The API allows you to interact with NY Times articles. To make it easier to use the API to make mobile apps in Appery.io, we created a plug-in with some ready-made services (interfaces) to use the NY Times Article Search API. Read the rest of this entry »
