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We’ve got some exciting news to share:  API Express is now available as a standalone deployment.  As you know, API Express enables enterprises to easily and securely access enterprise databases using REST APIs. Many enterprises are interested in creating REST APIs for their back-end systems so that they can be accessed from other applications including mobile or desktop apps. API enables this capability by allowing you to modernize legacy systems without re-writing them, making them accessible through mobile apps. However, our latest updates not only allow you access to enterprise databases, but other systems which are accessible through HTTPS protocol.

Our new standalone deployments of API Express enable new users to:

1. Deploy API Express Standalone on premises behind their firewall in order to meet their IT polices. Due to API Express being deployed this way, you can securely access your enterprise system while still leveraging the rest the Appery.io platform from the cloud.
2. You do not have to purchase our complete Appery.io platform now that API Express is standalone, yet you are still able to easily modernize backend systems with RESTful APIs.
3. One of our key new features to API Express is our Enterprise and Java Services. You can now conveniently develop and deploy a service of any complexity that has any underlying enterprise system behind it to expose services in any form.

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Update June 1st: we have pushed the support end date to July 10, 2016.

We want to let you know that we will be ending Windows Phone support in the Appery.io platform on May 15, 2016 July 10, 2016. The reason for this is very simple; very few Windows Phone apps are being built and deployed on the Appery.io platform; even Microsoft bets its future on the universal Windows 10 applications, and not on the Windows Phone (information regarding this topic can be found here, and here).  The resources we used to support the Windows Phone will be redirected to add a more easy-to-use tooling for building enterprise iOS and Android apps, which is a good thing.

If you need to export a Windows Phone project source or build a binary, go to Export windows inside the App Builder:

Export menu

You will be able to export the files until May 15, 2016.

A recording of the first webinar in our 2016 webinar series is now available. It introduces you to the App Builder and how to build apps with Ionic/AngularJS.

From this video, you will learn:

• How to create a new Ionic app
• The various views inside the App Builder for Ionic and AngularJS
• How to build an app connected to a cloud database:
  • Building the app UI using the Design view
  • Mapping data between scope and services using the visual Mapping view
  • Binding data between scope and page using the visual Binding view
• How to test the app quickly in the browser

Check out the video now:

To learn more how to build apps fast, go to our YouTube channel.

You can still sign up for our next webinar (tomorrow), “Getting Started with App Builder for jQuery Mobile Apps”!

“It’s crazy just how fast I can build an app using Appery.io, but what is even better is that I can push the same app to Android, IOS, and Windows Phone with very little work. The speed of development was astounding.”

An independent developer with limited coding experience, has successfully created the Motorway Cam App that has over 40,000 downloads from the IOS and Android app stores. Appery.io’s ability for customization, and our easy-to-use platform has enabled the developer to build coding into the background. This has allowed the developer to design the app to preform as intended instead of following pre-designed templates.

Not only has Appery.io’s easy-to-use platform enabled the developer to create two other Motorway Cam Apps for Netherlands and Spain, our updates have allowed the developer to introduce the AUTOCAM feature. This feature takes the user’s GPS co-ordinates, and direction of travel to provide them with 4 live camera feeds so that they can view current motorway traffic conditions.

Click here to view the full case study.

Happy 2016!

2015 was a great year for Appery.io, and we’re looking forward to another fantastic year in 2016!

In 2015, we hit some amazing milestones, including:

• Surpassing 300K users (see below)!
• Adoption of Appery.io into educational curriculums at over 1K academic institutions worldwide!
• Selection as a 2015 top 100 global Red Herring winner!

As the new year unfolds, we’d like to wish everyone a happy and prosperous 2016!

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API Express visual editor

Appery.io API Express make it fast and simple to connect to an enterprise data source and expose it via a REST API. With API Express you can quickly create an API for:

• A relational database
• A WSDL service (SOAP)
• An existing REST API

In this tutorial, I’m going to show how to expose an existing WSDL service as a REST API and then build a mobile app using the API.

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The Appery.io platform provides a cloud database for storing any app data. The database also has a built-in user management feature. This means, if your apps needs user login or user registration, this capability is available out-of-the-box.

Appery.io database built-in user management

The Users collection has two default columns: username and password. In most cases you will also need to store additional users information such as email or address. One option is to create additional custom columns in the Users collection. Another option is to store any user information in a different database collection and then link the Users collection to that collection. In this blog post I’m going to show you how use a separate collection to store user information and how use the Pointer column type to link the two collections.

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This is guest post from our partner Apperian, by Tiffany Early, Managing Editor, The MAM^® Blog

As an enterprise app developer, do you struggle with distribution of your apps for either usability testing or final delivery? How do your customers then get apps to their end users?

Security Risks with Public App Stores

The public app stores – iTunes, Google Play – just don’t work for distributing enterprise apps, since your apps can get lost in the millions of consumer apps, be confused with public versions, or be exposed to major security risks.

Headaches of Self-Hosting

Self-hosting and emailing direct download links, portals, shared drives, FTPs, etc. are difficult to maintain and increase your administrative overhead. You have to build security measures into the app before it’s compiled, and there’s no support for the ongoing application lifecycle management of onboarding, inspecting, securing, signing, and deploying mobile apps.

5 New Ways to Securely Distribute Enterprise Apps

Using a mobile application management platform for app lifecycle management and security, you onboard, sign, and wrap your apps with security, analytic, and other management policies. These policy-enabled “managed apps” are then ready to be distributed to your customers in a variety of ways, without requiring access to or control of their devices.

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In this webinar recording you will learn how to use plug-ins to make mobile app development faster. The webinar covers:

• Running and testing an existing app that uses Server Code to invoke the Uber Products API.
• How to export the entire app as a plug-in
• How to select particular pages or services to export as a plug-in
• How to export the entire app as an app template plug-in
• How to manage existing plug-ins
• How to import a plug-in into your app
• How to create a new app based on a template plug-in

It’s all in this 30-minute YouTube recording!

And, we have many other videos on how to build apps fast on our YouTube channel. Start building apps fast now.

Happy New Year!

In this webinar you will learn how to build a complete mobile app without writing a single line of code. This video tutorial covers:

• Using a plug-in that provides the following:
  • Login and registration pages.
  • A page where the signed-in user can add any items to the database. The records in the database are only visible to the signed-in user.
• Setting up a database with security.
• Using Barcode scanner native API.
• Setting up Push Notifications.
• Testing the app on the device using the Appery.io Tester app.

Like this video and want to learn how to build apps fast? View our recent webinars.