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Appery.io was initially designed for creating mobile apps of the enterprise level, but at the same time, it is so intuitively simple and flexible that even elementary school students can use it!

Some days ago we got the news so positive and inspiring that we can’t help sharing it with you: one of our users is officially the winner of the 2022 DCSD Virtual Technology Fair!

Dhwanil Dalal, a student of the Dunwoody Elementary School, GA won the 1st PRIZE in the Mobile Apps category with his app created with Appery.io and was selected for the state level competitions! According to the 2022 DCSD Virtual Technology Fair Committee, all the submitted projects from Elementary, Middle, and High schools around the district were judged on documentation, functionality, creativity, understanding, and intended purpose.

The project of this talented kid, Hobby explorer, created with our visual App Builder is actually a platform intended for students who are looking for teachers to support them in their hobbies like music, dance, Rubik’s cube, etc. in their nearest area and can help making useful connections.

Thanks to Dhwanil, Appery.io is now on the list of the recommended tools in the Mobile Apps category of the Georgia Educational Student Technology Competition (GASTC).

Interestingly, that we could have never learned about this great story of success of this little but very talented boy if one of our users hadn’t written to us with the news that his son had used the Appery.io platform to build the project for his school competition. What is more: the kid managed to create the project using our 2-week Trial subscription and when the trial period came to an end the happy farther reached out to us asking for a discount to support the kid in the next round of competition.

No need to say that we were happy to extend the subscription for free as it is an honor for us, at Appery.io to support our users commited to create apps that make our world a better place to live in and succeed in doing that! Of course we couldn’t but ask the family if we could share this story of success and inspiration with you and got their consent.

And now, when the boy is invited to participate in the virtual GASTC – 2022 Georgia Virtual Student Technology Competition and is making his best getting ready for the next round it’s high time for all of us to say:

Keeping our fingers crossed for you, Dhwanil!

Dear Appery.io Users,

Since recently, our customers have started complaining about issues with registration/login into our forum. Therefore, we have decided to introduce yet another open channel where you are free to ask any Appery.io-related question(s) you might have: Stackoverflow. 

Stackoverflow is one of the most popular and renown platforms where anybody can ask for an advice on any programming issue. Where hundreds of users find answers to their questions daily and thousands of experts are happy to provide their colleagues with useful recommendations and examples.

Is is truly a huge community and from now on, we encourage you to post your questions (like those on Appery.io Platform, App Builder, Appery.io plug-ins, etc.) there instead of using forum.

Please make sure you use the tag <Appery> or <appery.io> while posting so that our experts from Support Team (as well as other users that can be of help) could answer them ASAP to our mutual satisfaction:

We hope this will help to remove any barriers to effective communication and make getting professional help as easy and productive as possible.

And as usual, we offer more ways for you to get help. Please check this link to learn how to reach to our Support Team for help.

Lots of love on St. Valentine’s Day!

Your Appery.io Team

In this short tutorial, you will learn how to add and set up the camera plug-in in order to take photos from your device. Using the file reader plug-in, you can easily save your photo through a built-in database service.

Dear Appery.io Users,

We would like to call your attention to important changes that are to be made to the deprecated library versions of all Appery.io projects frameworks!

Please note that all library versions marked as deprecated (1.0 for Ionic 5, 1.0 and 1.1 for Ionic 4, and 5.0, 5.1, and 5.2 for JQM projects) will soon be removed from our system:

In this connection, we highly recommend upgrading your app(s) to the latest version available. To do that, in your app, go to App settings > Resources, select the newest library version and click Apply.

Also, please make sure you test your app to check if it works properly after performing such an upgrade.

Thank you for your understanding and happy developing!

You can easily upload files into the Appery.io database using our File Read plug-in for the Ionic 5 framework. Watch our tutorial to learn how in just a few steps.

Our new tutorial tells you how to create a connection to a relational database and use it in Appery.io projects. Watch it now.

The holiday season has already started, and we’re all busy with preparing gifts for people we love.

We, at Appery.io, have always worked hard to deliver the best service value to our users, and we are here to say that we have a Christmas gift to give to you!

Last Sunday, we delivered a new release that included these great new features to help you save time on app development:

• Try adding our ready-to-go screen layouts (CREATE NEW > Page) that will help you instantly get the UI you want:

• The no-code approach now works for mapping as well. For your convenience, we created an easy-to-use transformation editor where the user can add transformation, choose a type, and then edit it:

• We’ve also added Is invalid and Is valid properties to the Form component with the option to use them in mappings
• The Appery.io Team also implemented new property types for some UI components (Button, Html, Input, Text, etc.), like Color-picker, with grouping them under the separate PROPERTIES > Styles tab so that you can enjoy the no-code CSS approach when you’re styling your mobile app UI:

• Previously, only CanActivate Guard could be used to determine if a particular action can be taken against a route. From now on, all angular guards are implemented so that working with routing will be easier and more powerful:

• As always, we’ve fixed some minor bugs to keep your Appery.io experience running smoothly.

Thanks for reading and 

Thank you for staying with us!

Thank you for all the appreciation, invaluable feedback, and loyalty!

Hi everyone!

We are thrilled to announce that last weekend, another Appery.io release successfully went live!

Let’s take a minute and look at the introduced features and check out how useful they are.

These include:

• Updated Disabled, Visible and Validation properties for the Ionic 5 UI components set;
• Improvements to working with variables;
• SendGrid and Mailgun Server Code plugins updates. We have also provided you with sample apps instructions for both SendGrid and Mailgun as well as with other relating documents so that you could start testing them yourself;
• Encoding to base64 is widely used for Basic authentication and it is now added to the Appery.io system libraries along with decoding, just in case. Check them out here for more details;
• Downloading file(s) from Media Manager;
• An extension on the set of icons that can be applied for iOS Apps binary:

• A modification to the Reorder component, so it is now easy to move and interact with components immediately after adding them:

That’s all for now, but stay tuned! We have more ideas on how to fulfill all of your Appery.io wish lists!

A new release from the Appery.io team arrived last Sunday, and we’ve introduced quite a few useful features to add to the functionality and versatility of working with our Visual App Builder.

Let’s check out the changes you need to know about!

From now on:

• Our new users will be welcomed with our branded easy-to-start wizard to assist them with creating their first-ever Appery.io mobile application:

• Customers who are confident with configuring config.xml in the app source files will be able to do so right from under the App settings tab;
• The option of validating that the Hot Code Push plug-in will be enabled when running the autoupdate task that will ensure that your app will be auto-updated as expected;
• Working with our sample apps has become as easy as it could possibly be; there’s no need to download the app backup and further install it – just click the needed link and the app is ready to start!
• The ability to work with custom back end has been added through our AppClient library;
• New themes now come with default colors:

• The possibility to create Models from json and/or service response as well as several new actions and plug-ins have been added to make development even more versatile

As a bonus, we have fixed several bugs and made some cosmetic improvements so that you can enjoy your development experience with Appery.io even more!

New to Appery.io? Want to build your first app with Ionic 5? Then we highly recommend that you start with our ready-to-go Ionic 5 Custom UI Components App Template. In this template, you can find all Ionic 5 UI components currently presented by Appery.io. You will be able to review all of them in detail and customize any component according to your needs.
Check out our instructional YouTube video to learn how to work with this sample app:

Bonus: we have also added new library versions: jqm 5.3, ionic 4 1.2 and ionic 5 1.1 so new Cordova Android 10.1.0 and Cordova iOS 6.2.0 are now available to our customers.