Please check out the new “Ionic 4 Secure Storage Plugin“ tutorial on our Appery.io channel. In this video, you will learn how to use the Appery.io Secure Storage Plugin to securely store data in your own mobile application.
Dear Appery.io Community,
We would like to thank you for choosing our platform to address your web and mobile app-building needs. It has been a joy to work with all of you, and we hope you enjoy your Appery.io products as much as we enjoy helping you!
In addition to our ongoing efforts to meet your app development needs, we would like to reward our community with an exciting new offer to advertise your apps on our website for free.
At this time, we are creating case studies (showcases) based on some of your projects on the Appery.io platform that will help you convert leads into new customers to boost your business.
If you like this idea and want to get in on it, please let us know.
So if you:
– have an app you’re excited about
– have published your app on any app store, and
– want to advertise this app for free on our platform
Please send us a link to your application at support@appery.io.
While we have your attention, we would also like to remind you that when you work with Appery.io, you build a completely ‘white labeled’ app, so only your company’s logo and name will appear on your final product. As far as we’re concerned, you are the creator and the sole owner of all your apps. Any proprietary information or techniques used for your application will remain confidential; we will never share any information about you without your consent. For more details, you can check our Copyright, Trademark, and Content Ownership section.
We forward to hearing from you soon about this exciting new way to build our partnership,
Sincerely,
The Appery.io Team
Two months ago, we announced the winning apps from the Appery.io COVID-19 Virtual Hackathon. Today, we would like to present one of them to you. “Deep Breath” is a relaxation app featuring a number of timed meditation exercises, as well as an assortment of relaxing nature sounds to aid in sleep.
This awesome app is designed to help people relax by making it easier to practice self-guided meditations and quick relaxation techniques. These techniques can be practiced on your own with the aid of the app. No special knowledge or experience is required—just follow the exercise steps. Another app feature is a playlist of relaxing sounds from nature, which can be of great help in case you have trouble sleeping.
You can try the app by actually creating it as an app from a backup file. To restore the app from a backup, follow these steps:
Note that, before you can export the app APK or IPA and install it on your device, you will need to import the following Cordova plug-ins under the Resources > Cordova plugins tab:
https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-screen-orientation.git into the Repository URL field and enter 3.0.2 as the Repository branch name, as shown in the screenshot below:
When done, select them in the App builder under the App settings > Cordova plugins > Imported Cordova plugins tab:
Also, make sure that the File plug-in and the Media plug-in are added (enabled) in your app (under App settings > Cordova plugins > Core Cordova plugins).
Please, note as well that if you need to build the app for iOS, you will need to upload your distribution certificate and provisioning profile that you obtained from Apple under the App settings > iOS binary tab. You can check this document in case you need help with exporting your application for iOS. And, here, you will find the document that explains how to manage certificates in Appery.io.
Finally, when you are all set, you can proceed with exporting your app (EXPORT > Binary (.apk) or EXPORT > Binary (.ipa)) and then installing it on your device.
See. It looks just beautiful.
The app UI is intuitive and attractive. You navigate through the app using a bottom tabs bar.
The Home page nests three different options: MEDITATION TIMER, QUICK RELAX, and SLEEP BETTER all of which offer different activities to be used for relaxation:
The app uses the Cordova Media plug-in for playing audio files, and the native HTML5 audio element is used for playing audio on the desktop. When you play audio on the device, the user can then use the music controls that are shown. The app uses the Cordova Music Controls plug-in for this.
The Feedback page uses the Email Composer Cordova plug-in for composing emails on mobile devices; for desktop machines, it uses a simple HTML ”mailto:” link.
The exercise data is stored in a custom Angular service, dataService.
The auxiliary ngx-countdown module is used for managing the countdown timer on the Timer app page. The progress circle is presented by an SVG element, whose attributes depend on the timer value.
Finally, the Screen Orientation Cordova plug-in forces the app to use the portrait mode.
Dear Appery.io community!
We are happy to announce that our new Forum has been launched and we are already looking forward to sharing ideas about the Appery.io platform.
From now on, you are free to visit our new Forum space at https://forum.appery.io/ to post your questions/ideas or look for solutions about building with Appery.io.
And, as always: if you need additional information or have any Appery.io-related questions or concerns please feel free to contact us. We are here to help!
Recently, many of our users have started receiving the “ITMS-90809: Deprecated API Usage” message when submitting their Appery.io projects to AppStore. This is connected with the fact that Apple is currently in the process of formal deprecating UIWebView and is migrating to WKWebView, UIWebView’s successor.
In this connection, we would like to update our users with the following instructions on how to avoid the issue with Apple submissions:
2. Go to the Resoures tab and select the latest library version (now, it’s v1.2):
3. Check if the default InAppBrowser 5.0.0 is enabled on the Cordova plugins > Core Cordova plugins tab:
4. You might also need to upgrade your Target SDK version under the App setttings > Android binary > General tab. 5. Rebuild your app.
2. Under the Project > App Settings > iOS Binary tab, select the latest Cordova iOS version available (6.0.0.): 
3. Under the Project > App Settings > Core Cordova plugins tab, enable WKWebviewEngineAllowFileAccessPlugin:
4. Check that you don’t have edited files on the Source tab
Then, scroll down to locate the Appery.io cordova-plugin-ionic-webview plugin and enable it:
Cordova WKWebView Engine and Cordova-plugin-ionic-webview plugin plugins may be unchecked if Cordova iOS 6.0.0. is selected.
For the apps built earlier, switching to a different browser engine might be needed which might result in some other issues that should be considered separately in every particular case.
Also, we would like to remind you that you are always welcome to contact us if you have further questions about this or any other Appery.io related issue.
For some time, we’ve maintained a forum on Get Satisfaction for our user community to share ideas and questions. But, we finally had to close this forum, because the owner, Sprinklr, Inc., will no longer be offering or maintaining the Get Satisfaction platform.
Meanwhile, if you have any other questions or concerns about Appery.io, please feel free to reach out to our support team directly and we’ll assist you as best we can!
And stay tuned! We’ll be launching our new community forum soon. Thank you for your patience while we finish setting it up.
In this release, launching this weekend, we have a lot of good news for you about these topics:
So, without further ado, let’s look at each in more detail.
We continue to improve the Ionic 4 framework in our platform. Now we have added a new component, Toggle. If you don’t know, toggles change the state of a single option. They can be switched on or off by pressing or swiping them. Please check:
The Chart component has proved to be a useful and frequently used feature. We have finished beta testing, fixed some issues, and are now ready to fully roll it out for production.
We have added the ability to set the default font in App Settings. It is applied in the Visual Editor to have the same font displaying as the Preview and can be reset just like the icon.
Now you can send emails using Server Code (our feature for writing app logic on the server using JavaScript). We are sure that this will be a very useful for our users and that they will appreciate it.
Now, using the Datetime component, the user can enter hours and minutes into the database without adding the TSC code.
Developers can now update and delete currentItem from an array.
Security providers will now be added when you export an API Express project.
What update goes without fixing bugs? So yes, we fixed a large number of big and small bugs to make the platform better.
To the attention of those Appery.io community members who are used to debugging their apps for iOS devices using our Appery.io Tester app!
This short announcement is to inform you that we are currently in the process of updating and reuploading the app to the App Store and it will become available from it soon.
So, if you receive the message “Appery Tester App Not Available – the app is currently not available in your country or region”, don’t panic and rest assured that we are aware of this issue and are actively working on updating the Tester app and will do our best to push it to the App Store as soon as possible.
We would like to thank you for your patience while we are getting this done and recommend using the below workaround if you find testing via the public preview or using testflight inconvenient or inappropriate:
Dear Appery.io Community!
If you thought the recent increase in allowable API calls with no increase in fees was the end of our efforts to upgrade Appery.io as a product to better suit your needs, we’re here to tell you it was just the beginning. We are happy to announce we’ve cooked up two new plans that will be available starting June 4th, 2020!
We are introducing a new monthly Beginners plan, which is a perfect match for users who are just getting into Appery.io and want to poke around a bit more before making a big commitment. This plan is also a good fit for developers looking to build small, lightweight apps. New users will be able to assess our platform and build two projects using our two most popular frameworks: Ionic4 and JQM.
Now on to the big news for our mid-sized and enterprise clients or for customers who are looking to take the training wheels off their Appery.io experience. You’ll now have the opportunity to sign up for the Ultimate plan, the most comprehensive of all the plans we’ve created. This plan is stacked with 5 hours/month of dedicated professional support service that includes help with coding, custom logic, 3rd-party libraries, API integration, and debugging.
We are always committed to being as flexible as possible for our customers. If you’re already a customer and you’re looking to upgrade an existing plan, you can do so at any time. Also, if you are interested in a custom plan, private deployment, or enterprise-grade SLA options, just contact us to request a quote.
For an overview of the upcoming pricing update, have a look at the summary table below. More details will be available on our pricing page once our new plans go into effect.
| Beginners | Pro | Team | Ultimate | |
| Monthly Price (Paid Annually) | N/A | $70 | $135 | $500 |
| Monthly Price (Paid Monthly) | $25 | $99 | $200 | $600 |
| Included Services per Month | N/A | N/A | N/A | 5 hours* |
| Included Developer Seats | 1 | 1 | 6 | 10 |
| Maximum Developer Seats | 1 | 3 | 6 | 25 |
| Monthly Price per Additional Developer Seat (Paid Annually) | N/A | $30 | N/A | $30 |
| Monthly Price per Additional Developer Seat (Paid Monthly) | N/A | $40 | N/A | $40 |
| Apps | 2 | 3 | 7 | 12 |
| Platform API Calls per Month | 50 k | 1 million | 2 million | 2,5 million |
| Storage | 1 Gb | 2 Gb | 5 Gb | 7 Gb |
| Server Code Script Execution Time | 3 seconds | 5 seconds | 15 seconds | 15 seconds |
| Concurrent Server Code Scripts | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 |
| Server Code Script Execution Interval | 10 minutes | 10 minutes | 5 minutes | 5 minutes |
| Burst Rate: API Express, Server Code | 5 req/s | 10 req/s | 20 req/s | 20 req/s |
| Burst Rate API: Database, Proxy | 10 req/s | 30 req/s | 50 req/s | 50 req/s |
| Throughput | 15 Mb/minute | 50 Mb/minute | 100 Mb/minute | 100 Mb/minute |
| Screens | 5 | 50 | 50 | 50 |
| In Memory Data | 4 objects | 4 objects | 6 objects | 6 objects |
| App Versions | 5 | 10 | 50 | 50 |
| App Backup | 5/month | Yes | Yes | Yes |
* Please note that the five monthly service hours included in the Ultimate plan do not roll over if unused at the end of the contract month. All five monthly service hours must be used within each monthly billing cycle (under both annual and monthly payment schedules).
There’s never been a better time to develop with Appery.io!
Your Appery.io Team
We are thrilled to announce the winners of our Appery.io COVID-19 Virtual Hackathon!
The Appery.io COVID-19 Virtual Hackathon grew into a truly fantastic event that brought together many developers and hobbyists around the globe in an effort to come up with digital solutions to some of the challenges posed by the Coronavirus pandemic. The submitted applications focused on areas like healthcare, mental health, assistance for the elderly and vulnerable, improving the remote work experience, financial stability, and maintaining a sense of community.
A panel of experts judged each submission based on a detailed set of criteria and reached a unanimous decision on the Appery.io COVID-19 Hackathon winners. Here are our top submissions:
The winning app named “COVID-19 Knowledge Test” aims to evaluate the degree of a user’s knowledge regarding COVID-19 and increase COVID-19 information literacy.
Congratulations go to our Grand Prize Winner, Katerina Zhadko, a freelance front-end developer based in Europe, for developing such an innovative high-impact application—with Appery.io!
The “Health Monitor” app connects doctors and patients. With this app patients can update their symptoms, notifying doctors of changes in their condition without needing to meet face to face. If a patient fails to report their symptoms or their condition moves outside the appropriate standards for them, doctors are automatically notified and can take appropriate action.
“Deep Breath” is a relaxation app intended to keep users calm during the pandemic. The app features a number of timed meditation exercises as well as an assortment of relaxing nature sounds to aid in sleep.
“COVID-19 Social Vulnerability” app tracks self-reported COVID-19 test results and downstream impacts including mental health, economic conditions, and housing.
“Walks2Go” provides interesting walking routes to people looking to get out of their house in a controlled and safe manner. Users can select the start distance from their current location, the length of their walk, and review a list of suggestions that fit their criteria along with a map of the route.
We want to thank all of those who participated in the Appery.io COVID-19 Virtual Hackathon. The success of this first hackathon is inspiring us now to work on creating even more opportunities to challenge and innovate within our amazing Appery.io community! Stay tuned for future announcements.