Video: Appery.io Complete Feature Overview

This video shows all the major and minor Appery.io features. The video covers:

  • App Builder
  • Database
  • Push
  • Server Code
  • Creating mobile app UI
  • Setting up a REST service
  • Binding REST service to a page
  • Packaging for iOS, Android, or Windows Phone
  • Publishing as HTML5
  • Creating plugins
  • and much more

AT&T Bootstrap Live Tutorial: Building a Complete Mobile App in Appery.io Development Platform

What

Join us for this Bootstrap Tutorial to learn about Appery.io Cloud Development Platform. Appery.io is the only cloud-based platform with visual development tools and integrated backend services. In this live coding session you will learn how to build a complete mobile app with Appery.io. We will create the app UI, add a cloud database, push notifications, and use REST APIs. We will then package the app for iOS, Android, or Windows Phone.

When

Tuesday, July 15, 2014 11:00 am, Pacific Daylight Time

Attend

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Learn How to Build a Complete HTML5/PhoneGap App with the Appery.io in Atlanta

Appery.io will be in Atlanta to show how to build a complete HTML5/PhoneGap App with Appery.io. The event is sponsored by Atlanta HTML5 User Group and Atlanta Mobile Developers Group. Hope to see you there.

What

Learn how to build a complete mobile app with the Appery.io cloud platform. We will build the mobile app UI with HTML5/jQuery Mobile using visual drag and drop builder. Connect to backend services, and to 3rd party APIs. Use Apache Cordova (PhoneGap) for native device features, build/deploy the app. This is a live coding session where attendees will be able to test the app as it’s being built.

When

July 16, 6:30pm

Where

AT&T Foundry Innovation Center (map)
75 5th St. NW, Suite 110, Atlanta, GA

Win prizes

We’ll be doing a couple of raffles at this meetup:
1) Google Chromecast
2) 3 X Appery.io premium subscriptions

Appery.io Partners with ForgeRock in Response to Demand for Secure Mobile Apps in the Enterprise

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that ForgeRock, the leading open platform provider of identity relationship management (IRM) solutions, has chosen to partner with Appery.io to provide its customers with a faster path to enterprise mobilization. The partnership is part of ForgeRock’s One Technology Partnership Program and will enable our mutual customers to accelerate time to market for implementing mobile apps that leverage next-gen identity services.

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New Webinar: Using Appery.io Backend Services to Build a To-do App

What
Using Appery.io Backend Services to Build a To-do App

When
Thursday, May 29, 11am Pacific Time

What you will learn
Learn how to build a complete HTML5/PhoneGap mobile To-do app using the Appery.io platform

Register
Register for this webinar

What Happened with the Upgrade This Weekend

As many of you know, we attempted to upgrade our platform this past weekend and had to roll the update back because of technical issues we encountered.  We made the tough decision to roll back the upgrade because, although painful, it would be least disruptive to our customers.   What happened is not acceptable to us.  We are growing fast and many of you rely on our platform for your business.  We are conducting a review of our process to ensure we deliver with quality each time.

Is my account impacted and if so what should I do?

Fortunately, for most of you, there was no impact.  However, if you opened and modified one of your projects between the times of Sunday at 4 AM Pacific and Monday 5 PM Pacific, some of your updates may have been lost as we rolled back to the earlier release.   If you believe you may have lost some of your changes, there is a good chance we can help you recover them.   Please contact our support channels so we can help you.

I will say this again, what happened over the weekend is unacceptable. We are already looking at ways to improve new features roll out.  In addition to improving our internal process, we are also considering deploying a beta system to both get early feedback on new features and also improve the quality of our new releases.  Another idea we’re considering is enabling users to manually upgrade their apps to new versions of our App Builder, rather than automatically updating them.  This would give you more control over your projects.  I’d love to hear from you about these and other ideas you may have.  Please feel free to write to me directly at max@appery.io

Max and the Appery.io team.

Important Platform Update Today – Monday, May 26 (Updated)

Update: new times published

As you probably know we had an update over the weekend. A number of updates didn’t work the way we expected, and we are going to roll back some of the updates. We are very sorry about this.  This will ensure you can continue using Appery.io, and your apps will continue to run while we resolve out any remaining issues. Once everything is 100% resolved, will have another update in a couple of weeks.

We are going to start the update around 5pm Pacific Time, and it will last until about 10pm Pacific Time, Monday, May 26.

As always, please follow us on Twitter (@apperyio) for latest updates. Our support is always available on the forum and via email.  If you have any other question this update, please don’t hesitate to contact me directly at max@appery.io.

New Mapping

Update (May 27): links were unlinked as this content not currently available.

Appery.io developers: we just upgraded the mapping feature in Appery.io! It’s now a lot more powerful and flexible.  This post is a quick overview of what has changed. The two links (Mapping, Model and Storage) provide more details on the new features. Read this post and then visit the links to learn more.

  • Mapping
  • Model and Storage

Old mapping

This is how the old mapping looked. This shows a data source (service) has been added to the page:

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Clicking on Edit Mapping, would open the service request mapping:

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and this is service response mapping:

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New service events and mapping

The new mapping is a lot more flexible and greatly simplifies building mobile apps in Appery.io. When you switch to Data view, a data source will now be shown like this. Make sure to click the expand arrow on the left to see the data source events:

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The mapping in Before send event and in Success event – that’s the exact the same old mapping Appery.io had before and the one you are used to. When a service was invoked, the request mapping would happen on Before send event and response mapping would happen on Success event.

As you can see what we have now is a lot more flexible. In addition to doing mapping, you can now also run any other action (click +Add button to see the actions), plus Run JavaScript which allows you to run any custom script. Plus, you can invoke any action on Error and Complete events. You can even run the new Mapping action on those events!

New Mapping action

The new Mapping action allows you to invoke mapping on any event, not just on service invocation (last in the list):

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The new Mapping action can also be invoked from the UI:

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For example, on button click, you can move data from page to storage, or from storage to page:

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Mapping: page, service, storage

The mapping is no longer limited to service-page mapping. You can now map data between page, service and storage. This is where the new Mapping actions comes into play. Before you could only map between page and service. Now you can map between page and storage (local storage, session storage). In other words, you can map data from page into storage, or move map data from storage to page. Here is how the new mapping looks:

Screen Shot 2014-05-24 at 11.18.17 PM

Notice that on the left side there are: Page and Storage. On the right side there are: Page, Storage, and Service Request. With the new mapping, we have simplified mapping between Page, Storage and Service.

Documentation

Please read the following pages that explain in more detail the new features:

  • Mapping
  • Model and Storage

 

 

What Is an Appery.io App?

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Appery.io is a cloud-based platform with visual development tools and integrated backend services. Appery.io provides powerful visual tools to build the app UI, but what’s the technology under the hood when you create the app? It’s pretty simple, the resulting app has:

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS
  • jQuery Mobile
  • Any custom HTML, JavaScript, CSS added by the developer
  • Apache Cordova — for native APIs and hybrid app creation
  • Any custom Apache Cordova plugins

As you can see, it’s a pretty standard technology stack when you build an app in Appery.io.

 

Webinar: Learn How to Build Mobile Apps with Facebook API

Join the Appery.io webinar this Wednesday, at 11am (Pacific Time) learn how to build mobile apps with Facebook API.