Using the Google Maps API: Directions, Geolocation, Multiple Markers, and Layers

Adding a map to your mobile app can provide great value to users. Maps used together with a smartphone can solve a wide range of tasks, whether it’s a pizza delivery app, GPS navigation, or travel guide with attractions. One of the most popular online maps is Google Maps. Appery.io provides a convenient way to […]

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Putting Wi-Fi, GPS & Magnetic Positioning to Use in an In-door Navigation App

A top-notch asset management company with offices based in Asia, Europe, and the Americas cares about its over 20,000 employees. To translate into action its corporate social responsibility policy statements, the company wanted a mobile app to ensure comfortable and hassle-free in-door navigation across multi-story building facilities for its professionals with these requirements: Get real-time […]

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Is Your Company Ready for the Upcoming App Explosion?

It’s fair to say that we are about to experience a significant app explosion in the enterprise, and most organizations won’t be ready for it. According to Gartner the average enterprise will develop 1400 mobile apps by 2024!  Since most of these apps will be custom, the total number of apps will be in the […]

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How to Install and Use the Cordova Background Plugin for Route Tracking

Every Appery.io app comes with the Apache Cordova library automatically installed. This means you have access to default Cordova APIs such as Camera, Contacts, Geolocation, and more. Many users also wanted to add 3rd-party Cordova plugins to the app. To make this process very simple, we’ve added a simple wizard. In this tutorial you are going […]

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How to Use Google Maps in an AngularJS App

Like standard UI elements, such as buttons, input and text areas, the Appery.io App Builder also provides a convenient and ready-to-use Google Maps component for your AngularJS apps. This component contains a large set of visually configurable properties and entities like markers and windows. There is a lot of help available for you to get the most out […]

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Tip: Need a Map in Your App? Just Use Our Ready-to-Go Component

Appery.io provides a Google Maps component. It’s easy to add into your app: simply drag it on the page and configure it via the properties panel like any other UI component. Then, use the Google Maps API on the component via JavaScript to show directions, place markers, add layers (such as the traffic layer), retrieve user location via Geolocation, etc. […]

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Using Google Maps API in Appery.io App

Google Maps is probably the most popular map widget used in the mobile apps today. Working with Google Maps in Appery.io app builder is very easy but as the same time is not very different than using other dev. tools. To add a Map component, simply drag and drop it from the palette onto the […]

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Extending the Google Map Component with Custom JavaScript

You can extend the functionality of any Appery.io component by adding custom JavaScript. Today, we’ll see how the Google Map component in Appery.io can be used to display driving directions both visually and as text. With the help of the Google Directions service, we’ll create a mobile page similar to the directions example listed on the examples […]

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