This 3-minute video shows how to create and test a REST API. The Uber API is used in the example. The video covers
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Located in New Brunswick, the Conservation Council of New Brunswick (CCNB) is a registered Canadian charity. They focus on environmental education and community engagement and provide research and offer solutions to protect the health of Canada’s environment.
As a non-profit charity, the CCNB is overseen by a Board of Directors and operates day-to-day with a staff consisting of an Executive Director and a small core of full time employees. Read the rest of this entry »
Mailgun is e-mail for developers. Mailgun has an elegant REST API to send and receive e-mails from your mobile app. I know that many Appery.io developers send e-mails from their apps for registration, confirmation, and everything else. To make it simple to use the Mailgun API in an Appery.io, we have introduced a Mailgun plug-in in Appery.io.
Mailgun plugin (Ionic)
The plug-in has a sample app with one page that shows how to send an email using the API. You can use the sample app as a starting point or add the plug-in to any existing app. Let me show you how to configure and use the plug-in.
Shaun Summers is a developer who leveraged the Appery.io platform to build an attractive and functional app. A B2B Marketing Director by day and “a technophile by night,” Summers designed an app to help people collect information about their clothing size in order to simplify clothing shopping.
The app is aimed at busy people that like clothes but have little time to go shopping and/or find little pleasure in the process of trying them on. The idea is to allow these individuals to accumulate some knowledge of their sizes for different brands so that they may confidently buy without trying the item on in the future.
This short video shows how to run and test your hybrid app without going through the app store.
In this video you will learn:
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If you signed up for Appery.io before September 2014, you might have used our old App Builder. If your app uses the old App Builder, then you will see a message like this:
Upgrade message if your app uses the old App Builder
When you are building a mobile app in Appery.io, you are starting with HTML/JavaScript app which then can be packaged as a Cordova (PhoneGap) app, published and installed on a device. You can also use any Cordova APIs in your app and add any 3rd party Cordova plugins.
Everyone knows that testing is one of the most important steps when building a mobile app and also the part that usually takes the most time. Luckily there is a very fast way you can test your app, and I’ll show you how to do it.
When you are working on an app inside the Appery.io App Builder, you are seconds away from testing your app. Simply click the “Test” button in the toolbar:
App Builder for Ionic
When you click the “Test” button, a new browser tab will open where the app will be loaded. It looks like this:
Last week we blogged about an AngularJS issue that breaks some APIs when you upgrade to iOS 9. We showed you how to create a patch. Today, we have added a plug-in that makes fixing this even faster and simpler. Import the plug-in, and you’re done. I’ll show you how to do that.
If your users upgrade their Apple device to iOS 9, you could run into a problem when working with the window.location API. The Ionic team found this issue (thank you) and posted a workaround with this patch. Adding this patch to an Appery.io Ionic (or Bootstrap) app is very simple. Let me show you how.
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Today, many companies looking to enter the world of enterprise mobile app development seemingly face a difficult development strategy choice: DIY tools vs. traditional enterprise mobile app development platforms (MEAPs). Choosing the right strategy for your enterprise can be a daunting task, especially when complicated by the influx of many business users within enterprises that want to participate in mobile development. In that case, the lowered skills barrier would make DIY tools an attractive choice, but the results of such tools are not typically enterprise grade, due to their lack of flexibility.
With that in mind, let’s take a look at the two options. It’s important to remember that both options have pros and cons, and either choice requires compromise. The options become largely a choice between flexibility and efficiency.