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Appery.io Makes the Forrester Shortlist

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Forrester Research, one of the most well respected technology and market research companies in the world, has given Appery.io some well appreciated recognition. In their recently published report, “Choose The Right Mobile Development Solutions,” they put Appery.io on their shortlist of 5 mobile app platforms-as-a-service.

“Mobile app platform-as-a-service. These offerings take the general platform-as-a-service concept (PaaS) and apply it specifically to mobile development. Mobile app cloud platforms include visual tools, but they also add other development metaphors like workflow definition tools, business rules, and data access painters. Examples of mobile app PaaS platforms include Appery.io…”

Read more in their full report.

Learn more about Appery.io’s MBaaS solution.

Using the Google Maps API: Directions, Geolocation, Multiple Markers, and Layers

Adding a map to your mobile app can provide great value to users. Maps used together with a smartphone can solve a wide range of tasks, whether it’s a pizza delivery app, GPS navigation, or travel guide with attractions. One of the most popular online maps is Google Maps.

Appery.io provides a convenient way to work with Google Maps for mobile apps – a Google Map component with a set of configurable properties and a preinstalled marker. All you need to add the Google Map into your app is to drag and drop the component on the page. That’s all: Google Maps will be loaded when the page is displayed.

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OAuth 2 Template: Plug-in for OAuth Authentication by Appery.io

OAuth 2.0 protocol is now the most popular authentication protocol for apps. By using OAuth protocol, you can securely authenticate with a variety of popular services what will increase app functionality and cover a much larger target audience.

The Appery.io App Builder has a large number of useful and convenient mobile development tools for rapidly creating Android, iOS and Windows Phone apps. Today we are glad to present another feature that significantly helps with the OAuth 2.0 authentication routine – the OAuth 2 Template plugin.

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Webinar Crash Course to Kick Off 2015

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Appery.io is the best mobile app development platform out there, but, with so much in Appery.io, it’s important you get the help you need to take full advantage of the platform. One way we’re doing this is through a series of weekly webinars—starting next week—that constitutes a crash course in Appery.io.

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Platform Improvements for 2015: Enterprise Collaboration, Security, Speed…

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Happy Holidays! Before we close out 2014, we wanted to update the Appery.io platform with a number of really cool features:

  • Team collaboration enhancements
  • URL-based security in Secure Proxy
  • Faster proxy
  • Sharing with Appery.io support
  • New XHR implementation

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Top Three Challenges in Enterprise Mobile App Development

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Enterprises are adopting mobile technologies at an unprecedented rate. As Business News Daily recently reported, 1.3 billion workers will go mobile by 2015, and with that massive number, the need for enterprise mobile apps can only skyrocket.

With that increase, many mobile app developers will be called upon to create internal mobile enterprise apps. These apps have many requirements and considerations that differ from the typical app destined for the public app stores. In this article, we will take the top three challenges and share some tips on how to meet these challenges:

  1. Security
  2. User Interface
  3. Choosing a Development Technology

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Fima Katz Talks about Implementing Bimodal IT

Surfing the wave of mobile demand with bimodal IT

SandHill.com, a top online source for business insights into software, recently published an insight from Fima Katz, the CEO at Appery.io. In this short informative piece, Fima discusses the bimodal IT approach that helps enterprises answer the question of how to make apps in a timely way to meet the wave of ever escalating demand for more and more mobile access to the enterprise. Fima quickly covers the approach and then lists the key elements for a successful plan using mobile app development tools to implement a bimodal IT strategy.

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Get New UI Themes For Your App

We just published a bunch of new UI themes. We took all our existing themes and updated them to look modern and flat.

Example of one of the new themes

Example of one of the new themes

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