Quickly send push notifications with Appery.io backend services

Push notifications. It is a great way to inform app users about cool offers, important events or any updates. It’s an important feature for enterprise mobile apps. For instance, a sales manager can be instantly notified when an existing customer upgrades his/her plan.  Push notifications are a powerful tool to ensure your message is received and read by the user, even when they are not using your app.

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Appery.io provides fast and easy way to send the push notifications for both platforms – iOS and Android. Sending can be done in just a few steps:

  1. Enable push notifications in the application settings.
  2. Register the application with Apple or Google services.
  3. Install the app on the device. When it’s done, device information will be automatically added to your predefined devices collection.
  4. Send notifications from the console. That it!

You can send these alerts:

  1. Instantly
  2. Schedule
  3. Deliver in device’s time zone

The first two options, all the users will receive the message simultaneously. For instance, for some users it could be 8 AM, and for other users it could be 1 PM.

In the third case of the device time zone sending, users will receive the notifications in a different time – someone later and someone sooner.

Having all three options — is what makes Appery.io push easy to use, yet very powerful, and customizable.

You are not limited to sending push notifications from the push console. With push REST API, you can enable sending messages from any app.

Want to learn more? Head to our push docs or try the quick start push tutorial.

Appery.io Tops List for Building Mobile Apps

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Mashable recently compiled a list of the best mobile app builders, and Appery.io topped the list of 10 contenders. While we’re quite pleased to be considered #1 as just an app builder, we like to remind people that we are a full mobile app platform with a great suite of seamlessly integrable back-end services. So, with Appery.io, you get the best building tool—and much more.

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Win a $1,000,000 Hackathon Prize (I like spelling out the zeroes.)

Largest Single Hackathon Prize Ever

Our partner, Salesforce.com, certainly knows how to get your attention. They certainly got mine! This is a really great opportunity for mobile app developers. (The runner-up prizes aren’t too shabby either.)

What is this? Salesforce.com hosts a big annual uber-conference called Dreamforce. This year’s runs November 13-17 in San Francisco. As part of the conference, there’s a Developer Zone that focuses more on the technical side. If you have a bunch of developers together, you’re going to have a hackathon. The difference this time is that the prize is so amazing. Read the rest of this entry »

Looking Back at MobileCON 2013

Fima Katz, Francisco Kattan, and Max Katz were all at MobileCON this year to promote Appery.io. Appery.io was a finalist for the Application Development & Platforms MobITS award, Francisco Kattan presented on “Is Your IT Department a Bottleneck for Mobile Innovation?”, Max Katz demoed Appery.io, and we made two announcements. Read the rest of this entry »

Appery.io Gets Even Better

We recently updated Appery.io in a number of ways, adding up to a big step forward for the platform. At the same time, RESTXpress, an important part of the overall mobile solution provided by Appery.io, has been enhanced. We’ve discussed most of the improvements in Appery.io in a previous blog post, so I’ll just provide a summary of these before moving on to a discussion of the changes in RESTXpress.
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Webinar on Wednesday: What’s New in the Latest Appery.io

We are looking forward to our next webinar with Max Katz, Head of Product Management and Developer Relations for Appery.io. This time, he will be explaining how you can get the most out of Appery.io using its newest features, like advanced collaboration, Heroku integration (for publishing apps), and new UI components. You can see all of these new features demonstrated in this hands-on webinar. And, if there’s time, we might be able to squeeze in a little bit of the latest on RESTXpress, our secure web integration product … maybe.

What’s New in Appery.io
Wednesday, October 2nd, 10am Pacific time

Register now for the webinar.

We Just Got a Mobile Merit Award for Appery.io

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We won! Mobile Merit Awards recognizes excellence achieved in the global mobile industry each year. This year our product was recognized as the winner of the best Enterprise Product or Service for our Appery.io mobile app platform.  This year’s winners were judged based on industry impact, innovation, technologies, social importance, implementation and overall success factor.

For a while, we’ve noted the growing gap as the demand for mobile innovation in the enterprise outstrips the capabilities and capacity of IT organizations. Our Appery.io mobile app platform is just one example of how we are helping companies close this gap. We also offer services to help organizations use Appery.io and, of course, a full gamut of enterprise software development services in addition to Appery.io-specific services.

Congratulations to customers and our hard-working global product development team!

Maintenance Window for Sept. 1st

In order to perform required database changes, we will be taking the Appery.io service down this Sunday for up to 8 hours. This update will lay the foundation for improved performance as we continue to grow the service.

Down time begins:

September 1st, Sunday
1:30 am US Pacific Time

System up by:

September 1st, Sunday
9:30 am US Pacific Time

We apologize for the inconvenience. If you have questions, please e-mail us at support@appery.io.

July 2nd: Save the Date for Our What’s New Webinar

Many of you know about our monthly webinars that provide a broad overview of Appery.io (next one: July 1oth). On July 2nd, we’ll be doing a webinar with a different focus. Because we’ll be rolling out new features next week, we’ve decided to offer a webinar highlighting just these new features. Save the date or go ahead and register now:

What’s New in the Latest Appery.io Release
Tue, Jul 2, 2013 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDT
Registration Web Link: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/332778736

 

 

Webinars: Monthly Intro to Appery.io Webinars

We will now host an introductory webinar for Appery.io every first Wednesday of the month. There will still be additional in-depth webinars, but we wanted to make sure there would always be a beginner’s webinar “around the corner” at all times. Here’s the next one:

Wednesday, April 3, 2013 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST
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