We recently updated Appery.io getting started tutorials. These tutorials are the best way to learn how to use Appery.io and build your first mobile app. Try them today: http://docs.appery.io/getting-started/
When: Thursday, January 5, 2012, 6:30 PM
Where: Mountain View, CA
In this cool session you will learn how to build HTML5 and native apps using Appery.io. Appery.io is a cloud-based mobile apps builder that uses HTML5, jQuery Mobile, REST, and PhoneGap to build apps. A real mobile app will be prototyped and built during the session, which attendees will be able to run and test on their own devices.
To sign up and more info: http://www.meetup.com/BayAreaMobile/events/40927112/.
Appery.io Mobile Apps Builder is going to be the popular Apps World conference in London, Nov 29-30. Stop by our booth to learn how to build a mobile under 5 minutes or attend Appery.io session at the free Developer Zone on Nov 30 at 10:20.
Learn how to Build Mobile Apps Using Cloud Services
When: Nov 30, 10:20
In this cool session you will learn how to build HTML5 and native apps using Appery.io. Appery.io is a cloud-based mobile apps builder. A real mobile app will be built during the session, which attendees will be able to run and test apps on their own devices
Recording of our webinar from November 16th: From an Idea to Android Market in 40 Minutes.
As Appery.io Mobile Apps Builder continues to grow, we are getting more and more questions. I figured it would be a good time to summarise all the places and ways you can get help and also submit/vote for new features.
All Appery.io docs, getting started, videos, how-to’s, future plans and more are located at help.appery.io. If someone is not there, just let us know and we will add it!
The Appery.io forum can be found at http://getsatisfaction.com/apperyio. We recommend to use Appery.io forum as the place to ask questions. Why? Because using the forum other users can see and search for answers. Other Appery.io users maybe be able to help you as well. If you have a question on your account information or want to share a private REST service URL, don’t hesitate to use email (below).
Let’s say there is a new feature you would like us to add. Voting for new feature is very simple. Just go to Popular ideas section and enter your feature.
If you feel more comfortable with email, just send us your questions to support@appery.io
When you open a Appery.io project, at the bottom of the screen you will see the following field:
Just enter a short question and click Submit. We will get an email with your question and reply to it.
Twitter is a great way to get help, you can find us at @apperyio.
Facebook is also a great way to get help, you can find us at facebook.com/apperyio.
No matter which help option you select, we will try to answer your questions as soon as possible.
If you signed up for Appery.io Mobile Apps Builder today, there is small bug in trial period duration. It will show that your trial will expire in 1 day.
We are working on fixing it. You will get your full 30 days trial. Again, we are sorry.
Update #1
Good news, it’s fixed for any new users. Everyone who signed up before, we are working on restoring the 30 day trial.
Update #2
It’s now fixed for everyone.
When: November 16, Wednesday, 11am US Pacific Time
Register: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/466425672
One of the great things about Appery.io Mobile Apps Builder is its support for end-to-end development, going all the way from an idea in one person’s mind to an app running in thousands of phones. In this webinar, we’ll show you exactly how it’s done (and how easy it is) by walking you through a hands-on example. The focus will be on exporting options for apps. In this case, we’ll export an Android binary (.apk) and publish to the Android Market. Of course, we’ll quickly build an app first, so you can learn or refresh your memory about how to build the UI with jQuery Mobile, connect to REST services, and test the app.
In the context of mobile apps, basic access authentication is way for a Web browser to provide user name and password when invoking a REST service. A REST service that requires basic access authentication will look like this:
https://username:password@www.host.com/products
As you can see we are using https: and passing the username and password to the service.
Working with REST services (that return JSON or XML) is very easy in Appery.io Mobile Apps Builder. Appery.io comes with a service editor where you define service settings such as URL, and data format type (JSON, JSON, or XML). Request Parameters – for defining service inputs. Response Parameters – for defining service outputs.
Service properties for Twitter Search REST API:
Another very important feature of the service editor is the ability to test the service right from Appery.io. Here is an example testing Twitter search service:
From this screen you can also automatically create the service’s response parameters by clicking Populate Response Structure button.
Now, if you have a service that requires basic access authentication, you would simply enter the URL in the service settings:
The next step is usually to enter service request parameters and then test the service. But, when you test the service, the service will fail with a message like this:
Why does it fail? When you use a URL such as: https://username:password@www.host.com/products, basic access authentication is only supported by the Web browser. When you test the URL inside Appery.io, it does a regular GET request, without the basic access authentication and the service fails. When you run the actual app, everything should work, as request will be coming from the Web browser. We are looking at how to update the test feature to support basic access authentication.
What if you still want to create the service response parameters automatically? That’s still pretty easy to do. Run the service in Web browser. Copy the output. Open Response Parameters panel in service editor. Click Populate from Sample Response. Paste the response. Click Populate Response Parameters. That’s it. Again, keep in mind that when running the mobile app, everything will be working.
We just returned from app world conference in New York which was a great success. Next week we are heading to 2 more great events: AnDevCon conference and Mountain View JavaScript Meetup.
Appery.io Mobile Apps Builder is going to be at AnDevCon II (The Android Developer Conference) in San Francisco Bay Area, November 6-9. Stop by our booth and learn how to build Android apps ready for the Android Market using cloud services, all in about 5 minutes. It’s really awesome, I promise.
In this cool session you will learn how to build HTML5 and native apps using Appery.io. Appery.io is a cloud-based mobile apps builder that uses HTML5, jQuery Mobile, REST, and PhoneGap to build apps. A real mobile app will be built during the session, which attendees will be able to run and test on their own devices.
Sign up to attend this Meetup.
Navigating between pages in Appery.io is very simple. You first add an HTML event to a component, such as click for a button, and then add Navigate To Page action where you select the page to navigate:
This works very well, but it will replace the entire page. An alternative way to navigate or transition between pages is to use jQuery swipe transition which in my opinion looks better. Here is how to do it. You use the same event, such as click for a button. Then, we add Run Custom JavaScript action with the following code:
navigateTo('end', 's');
The first argument is the page name. The second argument indicates that a swipe transition should be done. That’s it. You are probably wondering why not do this via Navigate To Page action? It will be possible soon. We are going to add a check box so you will be able to select what type of transition you would like, a page replace or swipe. For now, this is a very simple work around.
Want to try it?
Just scan this QR code: