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In October 2020, the Appery.io platform was selected as the primary technology stack for the Reimagining Black Futures virtual hackathon organized by Black Girls CODE(BGC) and General Motors (GM).

The hackathon’s theme revolved around Afrofuturism — a concept that merges African culture and history with elements of science fiction. Several high-profile guests attended the event, including renowned historian Tyree Boyd-Pates and New York Times Magazine culture writers Jenna Wortham and Kimberly Drew.

Over the course of three days, #futuretechbosses from the Bay Area, Detroit, and New York City developed social justice-focused application concepts and software platforms. 

Prior to the hackathon, Alexander Ancipov from the Appery.io team held a series of workshops to teach the participants how to use the app builder. During the event, Alexander answered the girls’ questions via email, Slack, and the hackathon forum and helped them solve technical challenges.

When the pitch day arrived, the students presented their ideas to a panel of judges from several IT companies. The winning project was Rooted — a mobile application that connects Black professionals with HR specialists from technology companies in Silicon Valley. Apps like Rooted could potentially help Black youth fill the 1.4 million computing jobs created in the United States in 2020.

Appery.io is thrilled to have been part of the hackathon and is looking forward to collaborating with BGC in the future. We strongly encourage our colleagues from the IT industry to take a leadership role in gender and racial equity.

From now on, you can read CSV files and display their content on both web and mobile applications created in Appery.io. Watch our new tutorial to learn more about the CSV Reader plug-in that does all the work for you.

If you need a secure application with an HTTPS-only protocol, then you’re in the right spot. Check out our new video and learn how to redirect your application from an HTTP to HTTPS protocol by installing the HttpToHttps plug-in from the Appery.io development team.

If you’ve ever wondered how to add a validation functionality to your Appery.io app, you’re in the right place. In our new video tutorial, we demonstrate how to install and configure a new validation plug-in to your app in 10 minutes!

In our new video tutorial, we demonstrate how to create new custom components for Ionic 4 Apps. You can create a text area component just by following our step-by-step guide.

Converting your Google site and creating a mobile application using the Appery.io platform is really easy. Alexander from the Appery.io team demonstrates how to do it just by making a backup of a website and adding it to Appery.io.

Unfortunately, recently we had a failure in our databases hosted on Amazon and we lost some part of the data that was added to the databases after December 11th. We are trying to restore this information in the databases, but sadly, there is no 100% guarantee that it will work out and some of the data may be lost. Right now we are doing maintenance and it will run until 8:30 am (EST). Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

If you’ve ever wondered how to convert your website into a mobile app using Appery.io, you can learn in four minutes just by watching our new tutorial. We’ll give you all the tools you need to have your app published on Google Play or the App Store.

We’ve uploaded a new tutorial where we explain how to add a slider component to your Appery.io app that enables your users to move app screens back and forth. Don’t forget to try it yourself – just create an application using the Ionic 4 framework, add the slides plug-in, and choose your screen slides.

Winter has come, so it’s time for our newest release! Here are some of our new features:

New build log

We added the ability to view and download your full build log. If your app suddenly has an error that doesn’t allow app compilation, you can check the entire log to see exactly what went wrong. There’s no longer a need to ask support to find the cause. 

Bundled Projects

You can export your Appery.io project with all its dependencies, including Database, Server Code, and API Express projects. This allows you to make a full copy of an existing app in just a few clicks.

Ionic 4 Custom Components

With this release, will be able to create reusable custom components. It can be created in the Create New menu. New screen appears, where you can add predefined components and customize style and logic. And then this set is available to you on other screens in the components palette as a custom component.

New features for the Range component

We added validation of minimum, maximum, and step properties for the Ionic 4 Range component.

Return data object for update operation

Until now we only had the functionality to return the “_updatedAt” field. But since you told us that you want to receive your entire updated object, we are adding the parameter “full_object”  to make that a reality. 

Support for collections JSON 

We have added support for JSON formatting to use for file collection, which allows the following:

Bugs (Less of Them)

No update is complete without bug fixes. Just like we do on all of our updates, we’ve fixed large and small bugs to make your experience smoother.