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.

How to Test Your Appery.io iOS App Using Appetize.io

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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Fast Dynamic Image Processing in Your Appery.io Mobile App with Sirv

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Images are an integral part of any mobile app UI. A frequent requirement is to process these images (for example, making the image smaller for a particular device screen size). Such processing could be done on the client, but requires additional code and likely will effect app performance. A better solution is usually to process the images on the server where it is much faster and also gives you more options and flexibility. Sirv is a cloud service that does just that. Sirv and Appery.io have joined forces to show you how easy it is to use advanced image processing when building your app in Appery.io. Read the rest of this entry »

Students Learn Important Technology Skills and How to Build Mobile Apps

“I must say thank you to Appery.io,” said Charles Fergins, a High School educator and graduate student in Southern California. “Teaching application development has been tough, but also very rewarding, and is something that could not have been done without the team at Appery.io.”

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Building a MusicShop App Using Model and Storage

Recently, the Appery.io App Builder was updated with several significant features. One of the most important and fundamental changes was the introduction of Model and Storage notions. To show the best practices of using these features, we created a MusicShop app and step-by-step tutorial which describes in detail how to build such an app from scratch. This tutorial also has a MusicShop app backup attached to allow you to pay more attention to Model and Storage usage (you shouldn’t create the app step-by-step in this case, just create it from the backup).

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Big Upgrade: Brand New App Builder UI, New Model and Storage Feature, Improved Editors for REST Service and Mapping

The Appery.io platform was upgraded with a number of new features. This is a quick overview of what’s new.

First, we got a new splash screen…!

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