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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 »

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 »

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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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 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!

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.

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:

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
Register

The last piece is in for the Appery.io self-training course of videos. We’ve now added:

Lesson 5: Appery.io & PhoneGap Capabilities

In the video, we show how to take advantage of the PhoneGap API with ready-to-use “device services” and data mapping in the Appery.io app builder. For this lesson, we build a simple contacts app and go through the steps of testing it in an Android emulator.

Here is the complete set of lessons from the video page on our help site:

• Lesson 1: The UI Builder
• Lesson 2: Data Mapping to a Service
• Lesson 3: Using the Appery.io Database Service
• Lesson 4: Web Service Caching
• Lesson 5: Appery.io & PhoneGap Capabilities
• Lesson 6: A Windows 8 App with the Twitter API

Each lesson links to a YouTube video. For each lesson there is also a link to a Appery.io backup ZIP of the finished lesson app, which you can open as a new project within Appery.io.

We’ll be updating the series soon, so chime in with any suggestions

We’ve started a Appery.io self-training course of videos. These lessons are linkable now from our video page on our help site:

• Lesson 1: The UI Builder
• Lesson 2: Data Mapping to a Service
• Lesson 3: Using the Appery.io Database Service
• Lesson 4: Web Service Caching

Each lesson links to a YouTube video. For each lesson there is also a link to a Appery.io backup ZIP of the finished lesson app, which you can open as a new project within Appery.io.

What’s next?

• Lesson 5: Advanced PhoneGap API with Appery.io

Stay tuned!