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Most mobile apps include user registration and login, but most users don’t want to remember yet another password. One way of easing this burden is to allow signing in via a social network (via OAuth). Now, Appery.io developers can quickly incorporate this feature in their apps with a few steps. Set up your app with the social networks you want to use, configure the Appery,io database by providing information you get from the social network, and use the Appery.io Social Login API in your app. We’ve spelled out all the details in this handy doc.

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The new update has a lot of new features. These features include:

• Social login and LDAP sign-on for apps
• Offline capability in apps using the internal database or an external one
• New Bootstrap and Ionic components
• Outline page component view

Keep reading to learn more about what’s new in Appery.io.

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Collaboration is a really powerful and convenient feature in Appery.io making it easy to develop and test mobile apps with your own team. Your team members can be anywhere, and you can all work and collaborate on the app at the same time. When using this feature, there are a number of standard roles right out of the box, such as Admin, Team Lead, Developer, and Tester, which can be assigned to your teammates. Each role contains specific default permissions for different resources, but these permissions can easily be reconfigured for any of the roles.

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One of the core benefits Appery.io platforms provides is the ability to customize any app with custom code. While the visual builder offers speed and simplicity, being able to write code, add 3rd party libraries gives you the flexibility you need to customize the app as much as you need. In this example we are going to show you how to build an app with infinite scroll feature — as you scroll down, list data will be automatically loaded.

You will create an app that loads a list of dog breads. As you scroll in the app, the data will be loaded automatically. The app looks like this:

App with infinite scroll

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Appery’s Max Katz and Charles Cowens will be hosting a twitter chat for discussion about the #apperyio mobile app platform. We’ll be there to answer your questions, and we’ll have some questions for you, too.

• Q1: What kind of things are you doing with Appery.io that you’d like to share?
• Q2: What are the key improvements you’d like to see in the platform?
• Q3: Do you prefer getting information through videos rather than text?

Come join us:

#apperychat
Wednesday, Jul 29, 2015 9:30am Pacific time
Some links you can use: https://twitter.com/hashtag/apperychat
Some links you can use: http://tweetchat.com/room/apperychat

You can make your existing SQL database RESTful via API Express in just minutes. By exposing your SQL database via REST APIs, you can quickly build a mobile app (or web app) that talks to the database. This is a very common requirement when building enterprise mobile apps. API Express is a very powerful tool, so we’ve created several guides to help you get started. You can watch the video, try the step-by-step tutorial or read more about API Express here.

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Over the last two weeks, the Appery.io team has updated a number of docs related to the Database, Server Code and Push Notifications APIs. The new format is more user-friendly, making it easier to read and find information. The overview docs and API reference are now separated. This post summarizes what Appery.io Backend Services APIs are available and how to use them.

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With Appery.io visual mapping editor, it’s very fast and simple to map data between the UI and REST API services:

REST API mapping

There are cases where straight mapping might not be enough. In other words, you need to take data from the page and format it before making it input to a REST API. That’s exactly why the visual mapping editors allows to write JavaScript code — this allows you to customize the mapping as needed.
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The benefits are obvious for using native device features like geolocation and the camera. When you build your AngularJS (Ionic or Bootstrap) app with Appery.io, you can easily take advantage of these features. You import the services to access these features via plug-ins. Just go to CREATE NEW > From Plug-in and select the service you want to use. There are tutorials available for the plug-ins, so check them out if you’re feeling lost.

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