Join Our (Virtual) Office Hours with Max Katz on June 24!

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Join Max Katz for an interactive Q & A session on Wednesday June 24, 11:00 to 11:30am Pacific. Bring any questions you have about our platform — chances are others will be thinking the same question. Max will take your questions and maybe even demo the answers live!

As a bonus, Max will share a couple of tips and tricks to help you build better apps!

Register to reserve your space now!

Webinar Recording: Building a Barcode Scanner App Integrated with Backend Services

In case you missed our webinar, watch this recording to learn how to use Appery.io to build a barcode scanner mobile app. (At the end of this post is some of the coding used in the webinar.)

Check out many other videos on the Appery.io YouTube channel.

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API Express: Expose SQL Databases with REST APIs

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Wondering how to access your SQL database from a mobile app? We’ve got the answer. API Express, recently released by Appery.io, can make your existing SQL database RESTful in minutes, allowing you to perform CRUD operations from any external source, whether it’s a mobile app or a web page.

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Tip: Easily Create jQuery Mobile Themes for Use in Appery.io

Icon for a tipjQuery Mobile has an amazing “themeroller” for creating custom themes. Because of the openness of Appery.io, you can easily develop an incredible theme with this outside tool and then just import it into Appery.io.

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Big Update: Ionic & AngularJS Visual Builder, API Express, Server Code Versioning And More!

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Another update is bringing some cool new features to Appery.io; features designed to make the platform even stronger and more attractive. With this update, we’re excited to share the results of a lot of hard work.

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Adding Live In-App Customer Service With Bright Pattern Mobile API Plug-in

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Appery.io and Bright Pattern have partnered to improve the simplicity of implementing live in-app customer service for enterprises and their customers. The partnership’s result is a plug-in for the Appery.io platform that helps companies to quickly add contact center functionality to their mobile apps. Read the rest of this entry »

More Webinars! More Learning! More Apps!

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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 do this is through frequent webinars. Here’s what we have lined up through May:

April29Using Native Device Features in Cross-Platform Apps: Some Examples
May13Building a Shopping App with Payments
27New in Appery.io! [Yes. There will be a major mid-May release.]
What time? All webinars start at 11am US Pacific time. Where are recordings of previous webinars? On this YouTube playlist. More questions? E-mail me.

Easily Add Secure Payments to Your Mobile App

The ability to quickly add payments to a mobile app is frequently requested by users. Today, we’re happy to announce an update to our existing PayPal plug-in that lets you quickly and conveniently add secure payments into an app.

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Tip: Use the Breadcrumb to Navigate within Screens in the Builder

Icon for a tipThe breadcrumb represents the sequence of components containing components leading up to the currently selected component in the screen you’re working on in the App Builder (for example, “outermost component name > name of component inside the outermost component > name of the component you’ve selected that’s inside this component inside the outermost component“). It’s displayed above the screen. When you select the name of any listed component in the breadcrumb, that component becomes the selected component. As you can imagine, this is a very useful feature for working within complex screens.

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Uploading Files to the Appery.io Database via a Plug-in

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Mobile developers often face the need to upload binary files, such as images, to the database. For example, this could happen in an app like Instagram, where a user takes photos with the device’s camera and then publishes it to their followers. Of course, all the data — including images — should be stored in the database, so the user can sign in from any device and see his or or her feed.

Another possible case for uploading images is sending an MMS (multimedia message) from your app, which can be done via the Twilio API. Twilio accepts a direct URL to an image. A user takes a picture with the device and uploads it to the Appery.io database. Then, a direct image URL is passed to the Twilio API.

In Appery.io, there are three ways to upload files to the database :

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